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The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog

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In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unraveling the story of Onoda's long war.

Herzog es cineasta. Uno muy poético. Con "Crepúsculo del mundo", ahora es novelista. Esta es la primera, antes ya deslumbró con el diario de rodaje "Conquista de lo inútil". Ahora usa la ficción para narrar un hecho real: el soldado japonés Hiroo Onoda que durante veinte y cinco años creyó que aún seguía en la guerra, escondido en la selva de una isla filipina, desde la que continuó utilizando tácticas de guerrilla para repeler los intentos de búsqueda de su rendición, puesto que la Segunda Guerra Mundial ya había acabado, pero él no lo creía. Werner Herzog moved to Los Angeles with his wife in the late nineties. "Wherever you look is an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans." [24] Later career: 2006 onwards [ edit ]Y, tras esto, tras las causas que nos mueven y las certezas que nos impulsan, forjamos varias historias que luego conjugamos: la de la persona que somos, la de las decisiones que hemos tomado, la de los amigos que nos han acompañado y la del resultado particular de cada uno de nuestros esfuerzos. En eso, en la pugna por reconocernos dignos, es que nos jugamos la vida al azar. The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II. As I said, there are other attractions to this book – gossipy talk of actors; detailed rundowns of film-making strategy; and yes, plenty of bracing crankiness (including a few tiresome moments of anti-wokeness). This is Herzog’s more public self, and for the most part a very entertaining bear he is. But, for me, the real story here is of a somewhat cross little boy with an empty stomach and a howling sense of his own difference, clinging to a mountainside populated by gods and demons. Herzog was the president of the jury at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. [35] [36] [37] German filmmaker Werner Herzog's earliest memory is of war. He was 2 and a half in April 1945, and his mother woke him up in the middle of the night, wrapped him in blankets and rushed outside to watch the Allied airstrikes against the German city of Rosenheim, which was 40 miles away.

If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling."

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The result is an easy to read and short novel that fits Onoda's strange and twisting odyssey perfectly, the language effortlessly switching between the narrative in the jungle to a more abstract appreciation of a fascinating life. Werner Herzog on the Story Behind 'Rescue Dawn' ". Fresh Air. 27 October 1998 . Retrieved 21 June 2007. Werner Herzog's Wondrous Novel of Nothingness in the Jungle". The New Yorker. 16 June 2022 . Retrieved 20 June 2022. SHAPIRO: In the book, you write that - you say, I had worked under difficult conditions in the jungle myself and could ask him questions that no one else had asked him. Like what? What were those questions?

This book is a poem, an opera without music, a film without images. It presents a true fact of the human heart and invites us to consider it without commentary or judgment. Just to see it as it is. It's inexplicable in all the ways that people are inexplicable. Werner Herzog Reads His Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema". Walker Art Center. 30 April 1999 . Retrieved 8 August 2017. Brad Prager. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth. New York: Wallflower Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905674-18-3.From the true story of a WWII soldier who kept up the fight until 1974, legendary filmmaker Herzog distills a brooding, poetic novella . . . Herzog, ever in pursuit of deeper truths, sees in Onoda’s predicament an all-too-ordinary tendency to subordinate facts to master narratives.” — Booklist Hegnsvad, Kristoffer (2021). Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests. Reaktion Books.

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