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Author Ryszard Kapuscinki
Title of the book Travels with Herodotus
Recently I read ‘Travels with Herodotus’ of the Polish author Kapuscinski. Years ago, I read his book on Africa, ‘The Shadow of the Sun.’ What about the title? At times the moon has a shadow on earth, hasn’t it? But the sun, does its light breed a shadow on earth? Yes, it does and it provides a wonderful, metaphoric title on top. It was the first travel book about Africa that moved me deeply and for a long time. I think it was foremost his style of writing, appealing and seductive, informative and realistic, at times meditative. A reflecting style, one calls abusively literary, which undermines the truthfulness or even the sincerity of the writer. The style, however, is the author, as once a Flemish writer stated.
