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Of Walking In Ice
Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974
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This evocative and introspective travel memoir will appeal to readers interested in adventure, philosophy, and the intersection of art and nature. Fans of deeply immersive, poetic narrative and those drawn to existential journeys and psychogeography will find it especially compelling.
A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. It is a remarkable narrative – part pilgrimage, part meditation, and a confrontation between a great German Romantic imagination and the contemporary world.
'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'
Helen MacDonald, author H is for Hawk, winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
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Of Walking in Ice is Herzog's existential journey through a hostile winter landscape, one of the great modern pilgrimages. It is a record of physical suffering, hallucination, ecstatic revelation, portents and animals, and the wreckage of history and myth. The work has the eerie power of the best fairytales, hitting you with the force of dreams and leaving you with the taste of snow-filled air.
Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk, winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
Of Walking in Ice is a poetic meditation on life and death by one of the most renowned and respected filmmakers and intellectuals of our time.
In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the filmmaker 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.
This 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.
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Helen MacDonald describes Herzog's journey as one of the great modern pilgrimages that carries the eerie power of the best fairytales, hitting readers with the force of dreams and the taste of snow-filled air. Robert Macfarlane calls it the strangest and strongest walking book he knows, a weird, slender classic that is part diary, ritual, and memory. Iain Sinclair praises it as a fugue and absurdist comedy, as rich as Herzog's cinema.
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ISBN: 9781784870379
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 November 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 5.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 66g
Pages: 80
About the Author
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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