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Of walking in ice

Munich - Paris

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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, âe~in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on footâe(tm). 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 âe" 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 directorâe(tm)s walk.

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Of walking in ice, Werner Herzog

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Título
Of walking in ice
Subtítulo
Munich - Paris
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Vintage Books
Publicado en
2014
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
80
ISBN10
1784870374
ISBN13
9781784870379
Serie
Descripción
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, âe~in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on footâe(tm). 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 âe" 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 directorâe(tm)s walk.