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The article analyzes the narrative form of Ryszard Kapuscinski's 'Travels with Herodotus'. A key role in its structure is played by two types of autobiographical narration, personal reminiscences and intertextual reflection (quotations from Herodotus' Histories). The authorial 'I' is present in both of these strands: while reconstructing his portrait from memories picked up on the way into his own...