The Emperor's Deathbed: An Exchange

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Rushdie, Salman; Weschler, Lawrence | Copyright information

Weschler: Ryszard Kapuscinski was a master at jousting with the censors, perhaps nowhere more spectacularly than in his seminal masterpiece, The Emperor, published in Warsaw in 1978, which is to say during the last years of Polish party leader Edward Gierek's stupendously corrupt and incompetent regime. Although Kapuscinski's eyewitness account of the collapse, earlier that decade, of the stupendously corrupt and incompetent Ethiopian regime of Haile Selassie couldn't have helped but set off ...

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