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...instance, Domoslawski writes that Kapuscinski never actually met Guevara or Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese freedom fighter who became the Democratic Republic of Congo's first Prime Minister in 1960. He also says Kapuscinski never received an 11th-hour reprieve from a firing squad in Congo in the 1960s and that his father had never been a Soviet prisoner of war, as Kapuscinski had claimed. In addition, Domoslawski, a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest paper, claims that Kapuscinski served as a spy for the communists in his travels around the world, noting that it was nearly impossible to leave...
...Domoslawski's book has been widely condemned in Poland, in part because of Kapuscinski's nearly godlike status in the country but also because Kapuscinski had been Domoslawski's mentor and close friend. Kapuscinski's widow Alicja, who unsuccessfully sought a court order to block the publication of the book, likened Domoslawski's work to patricide. "He wanted to precipitate the removal from the pedestal of the one who promoted him, valued him, encouraged him and recommended him," she said in an interview with the newspaper Polska the Times. "Such things should be published several dozen years after the death...
...their criticism of the book. Former Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski has compared the biography's publishers to "purveyors of brothel guides." Polish author Tomasz Lubienski says Domoslawski crossed a line when he decided to publicly challenge the reputation of his mentor. "Domoslawski was not a good disciple of Kapuscinski, who was a refined man," Lubienski wrote in Gazeta Wyborcza. "[His book is] about the private life of the man who wrote The Emperor. That's unnecessary and it pushes the book into the gutter." Says another writer, Andrzej Stasiuk, in defense of Kapuscinski: "Would we care about the truth...
...knew, starting with a brilliant evocation of his warm, nut-brown, disarming smile ... But this book is the protracted cry of a worried and even a disappointed disciple - one who, in his nearly three-year journey of investigation, found things that deeply disturbed him." (See more about Ryszard Kapuscinski...
...last years of his life, Kapuscinski himself openly acknowledged that his work was not straight news reporting. "I aim to create such a way of writing which is not possible to categorize and which I call for my own use 'a new text,' " he said in an interview with Poland's Dziennik newspaper. "I simply want to write a text, which to my best conviction and experience is the closest and most faithful to what surrounds me. It is an experiment, and I do not care what category it will fall into." For his many fans, it may not matter...