Domosławski takes on Kapuściński, the mythologised war correspondent and master of literary reportage, and pulls apart the construction of that myth piece by piece. 

The book moves through revolutions, dictatorships, and collapsing states, but its real subject is authorship itself. Kapuściński emerges as both witness and fabricator, shaped by the ideological constraints of Communist Poland and the demands of Western readership. It's as much a biography as it is a tracing of the ethical fault lines of literary journalism where narrative clarity often comes at the cost of factual instability.

It’s a risky book, and it reads like one. That's refreshing to me, as it asks what we actually want from writers who claim to tell the truth about the world—and what we’re willing to ignore if the story is good enough.

2012 Verso hardback edition. Very good condition; light shelf wear to dust jacket, clean interior, binding firm.