Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his of...
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.
Many thinkers worry over the progressive bureaucratization of the world and the social threat of its terror. Yet they forget that these very bureaucrats are themselves terrorized, and that they are terrorized by their desks. Once plucked down behind one, a man will never learn to tear himself free. The loss of his desk will strike him as a natural disaster, a catastrophe, a fall into the abyss. Notice how many people commit suicide at their desks, how many are carried straight from their desks to a psychiatric hospitals, how many suffer their heart attacks behind desks. Whoever sits down behind a desk begins to think differently; his vision of the world and his hierarchy values change. From then on he will divide humanity into those who have desks and those who do not, and into significant... (查看原文)
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足球战争是1969年洪都拉斯和萨尔瓦多在世界杯预选赛后发生的6日战争，而卡普欽斯基是当时身处洪都拉斯的唯一外国记者。其实深究起来足球不过是借口，政治经济因素才是根源，但这表面上的戏剧性也难免沦为南美人民情绪化和疯狂的“例证”。这书像一本风情录，我最钦佩的不是作者满世界跑的丰富经历，而是他在每个驻地都能跟当地人有深入交流，而且成为时代的一部分。在章节因地点而转换的时候，连文风都跟着不一样了：加纳的篇... 足球战争是1969年洪都拉斯和萨尔瓦多在世界杯预选赛后发生的6日战争，而卡普欽斯基是当时身处洪都拉斯的唯一外国记者。其实深究起来足球不过是借口，政治经济因素才是根源，但这表面上的戏剧性也难免沦为南美人民情绪化和疯狂的“例证”。这书像一本风情录，我最钦佩的不是作者满世界跑的丰富经历，而是他在每个驻地都能跟当地人有深入交流，而且成为时代的一部分。在章节因地点而转换的时候，连文风都跟着不一样了：加纳的篇章如同作者其他的非洲主题一样被各种政局变幻、殖民伤痕、贫富差距所占满，不断被新鲜的人和事所轰炸，汇成一部后殖民时代的奋斗史；而智利之前那个过渡章节仿佛演变成了后现代的短剧；真正描述南美经历的章节，更像一部黑色喜剧。 (展开)