Kapuscinski

Frankly, I was not aware of the death of this great journalist. Ryszard Kapuscinski died early this year but lived long enough to live forever. On this show, the guest is Lawrence W., a great friend of Ryszard. He talks about him as if there was no man alive that looked like him. He told the lady that R.K. was everywhere, even in places no one thought about or no one knew existed. He was always sort of undercover because he tells a very funny anecdote in which R.K. was surrounded by Africans and he, the only white male in a 500 mile radius, was not seen by many. He then reads a small part on The Infer, R.K.'s most famous book but it is no very clear for a person who is unfamiliar with such book. The funniest part of the interview is when they talk about Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I would have never related these two great writers but they do have some things in common. Gabo is en escense a journalist and he will too remain always in our lives and hearts, making us look for a place that never existed but in the minds of the priviledged readers of Cien Años de Soledad. These two old guys were budies and even taught a seminar for latin americans, something I never knew of. That would have a been a fabulous experience. Even though he "seemed to be a nobody", as the poem tells us, he was actually a somebody and a great somebody.