The Future of Truth
$32.00
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2025
Summary
A timely and compelling meditation on the nature of truth and lies, fact and fiction, by the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon.
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an opera seems preposterous, can’t it still express emotions that ring true with the audience?
At the heart …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847928405 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847928404 |
| Author: | Werner Herzog |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 138mm x 16mm |
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Like the strange, enchanting films for which he is best known, Herzog’s seventh book defies the usual conventions of structure, narrative arc and the delineation of fact from fiction, even as it addresses the very subject of truth … It’s like listening to a fireside monologue from an entertaining uncle … Compelling … A collection of uniquely Herzogian mindfarts … Absurd, profound or an ecstatically truthful mix of the two – Farrah Jarral * Guardian *As we gingerly pick our way through the newly troubling realm of what we see and read, and wonder what artificial intelligence might have in store for us, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog might be the perfect guide … In The Future of Truth he shares field notes of his encounters with truth and its increasingly convincing simulacra, from deep fakes to wholly fabricated personalities, living full if fictive lives in cyber space * Financial Times *[A] typically eccentric meditation on truth: what it is, what it means, and how it relates to art. … It’s all poetic and thoughtful * Empire *
** PRAISE FOR WERNER HERZOG AND HIS PREVIOUS BOOKS **Herzog is in a category of one. You can’t believe that a person like this stalks the earth. A complete original
– Marina HydeVisionary * New Statesman *Herzog really is a kind of genius * Spectator *A singular poet * Big Issue *Werner Herzog has always seemed to be something more than human * Irish Times *Michael Hofmann’s sparkling and inventive translation from the original German…somehow makes Herzog more Herzog in tone * Guardian *About The Author
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog has produced, written and directed more than seventy features and documentary films, including the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, My Best Fiend, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Nosferatu, Lessons of Darkness, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev and Encounters at the End of the World.
He has also directed many operas and published more than a dozen books of prose, including Conquest of the Useless, Of Walking on Ice, The Twilight World and, most recently, his acclaimed memoir, Every Man for Himself and God against All.
In 2025 he was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival.
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