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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784870379Number of pages: 80Weight: 64 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 5 mm
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'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 MacfarlaneHerzog's pilgrimage is a fugue and an absurdist comedy as rich as anything in his cinema'. Iain Sinclair
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