EYE´S WRITERS WHICH SEE THE UNSEEN

Unfortunately, we found out through the report that the amazing journalist, Kapuscinski, died several days ago, at the age of 74. What´s most important is this individual’s life, since he made many people realize about astonishing historical events that happened in the 1960´s. Throughout all his research in various African nations, he had to deal with all political dealings and violence, although he wasn´t a member of those societies.
As Lawrence Weschler (a fellow writer, who met Kapuscinski in Poland) , said, Kapuscinski had an “incredible eye”, since he represented each scene with the most spectacular details. At the same time, he highlights the importance of his personality while being surrounded by various hot historical spots, given that he had to seem like nobody, capturing every slight thing. That’s why we, as readers, see Kapuscinski as a narrator, but always appearing in every story commented.
While listening this interview, I got really interested in how Kapuscinski is compared with Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( they were both great friends and were teachers for Latin America writers), since both of them chose to live under important historical situations and then reflect these with their own eyes and perspectives. Both use magic realism; In Cien años de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez imagines and describes a city which is not real, but the commented historical events did happened at that period of time. In The Emperor, the most important Kapuscinski´s book, he starts describing a city of pedigree dogs going wild, comparing them with humans.
With this comparison, now I will be able to be more connected with Kapuscinski´s writings, since I´ll be persistent in considering his magic applied in genuine events. An additional thing which got my attention, was that for he first time, The Soccer War book, is mentioned by his friend, Weschler, intriguing me more to discover its meaning...the title sense.