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Of walking in ice : Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December, 1974 / Werner Herzog ; translated from the German by Marje Herzog and Alan Greenberg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage HerzogPublisher: London : Vintage Classic, 2014Description: 70 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784870379 (paperback)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 838.91403 HER 23
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also published electronically.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 838.91403 HER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100608679

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, 'in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot'. Along the way he recorded what he saw, how he felt, and what he experienced, from the physical discomfort of the journey to moments of rapture. It is a remarkable narrative - part pilgrimage, part meditation, and a confrontation between a great German Romantic imagination and the contemporary world. This edition of the book is being published for the first time as a classic piece of proto-psychogeography, to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the legendary director's walk.

Originally published: New York : Tanam Press, 1980.

Translated from the German.

Also published electronically.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a
remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in
Munich and Pittsburgh.
He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced,
written, and directed more than fifty feature- and documentary films, such as
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972), NOSFERATU (1978),
FITZCARRALDO (1982), LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992), LITTLE DIETER
NEEDS TO FLY (1997), MY BEST FIEND (1999), INVINCIBLE (2000),
GRIZZLY MAN (2005), ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007)
or CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (2011).
Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed
as many operas.
Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles.

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