ФІЛОСОФСЬКА ТА ЕСТЕТИЧНА ЦІННІСТЬ ЛІТЕРАТУРНИХ РЕПОРТАЖІВ РИШАРДА КАПУСЦІНСЬКОГО: РЕЦЕПЦІЯ В УКРАЇНІ

Abstract

Researchers have long signalled the dynamic transformation of the information society, which has resulted in an increased interest in works belonging to the sphere of non-fiction, including literary reportage, over the past few years. This genre, on the borderline of journalism and literature, returns to the contem- porary humanity a sense of gnoseological certainty. The subject of this article is the texts of the “emperor” and founder of the Polish school of reportage Ryszard Kapuściński in their Ukrainian reception. This is the first attempt to examine the reception of the Polish reporter’s texts by Ukrainians, taking into account the dynamics and factors influencing it. Starting from the 2000s and until now, have been published the translations of “Imperium”, “Travels with Herodotus”, “A Reporter’s Self Portrait”, “The Emperor. Shah of Shahs”, “Another day of life” and finally “Ebony”. Each of these reportages showed the peculiarity of the author’s view of the world, whose basic aim was to sensitise his readers to all signs of otherness. Human dignity, reflection on difficult individual-society relations, identity problems, traumatic memory in various narratives about the Other, are the basic philosophical and ethical categories in Kapuściński’s individual method of describing the contemporary world. By going beyond stereotypes, the Polish reporter, as seen by the Ukrainian audience, shapes the principles of intercultural dialogue as a way of getting to know oneself and others, expanding one’s knowledge of the surrounding world and the values that remain unchanged regardless of historical cataclysms. A detailed emphasis in the article was placed on the reporter’s view of his mission not only to feel the Other and experience something with him, but above all to bring him closer to us so that he ceases to be an Alien.