Of Walking In Ice
Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974
$27.75
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2015
Summary
Herzog’s existential journey through a hostile winter landscape is one of the great modern pilgrimages - a record of physical suffering, of hallucination and ecstatic revelation, of portents and animals, of the wreckage of history and myth. Of Walking in Ice has the eerie power of the best fairytales. It hits you with the force of dreams and leaves you with the taste of snow-filled air.
A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784870379 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784870374 |
| Author: | Werner Herzog |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 66g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
‘Surely the strangest, strongest walking book I know, it tells the story of a winter pilgrimage, made in desperation and in hope. At once a diary, a blizzard of weather and memories, and the record of a ritual: only Herzog could have written this weird, slender classic.’ * Robert Macfarlane *‘Herzog’s pilgrimage is a fugue and an absurdist comedy as rich as anything in his cinema’. * Iain Sinclair *
About The Author
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog has produced, written and directed more than fifty feature 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, Littler 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 and Of Walking In Ice. The Twilight World is his first book in decades.
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