This book is the story of a journey in some extraordinary way: the journey on foot began in the winter of 1974 by Werner Herzog, to get from Monaco to Paris where the expected sick friend, Lotte Eisner, historians and scholars of German cinema. A witness of affection, according to Herzog, was to contribute to keep alive a loved one. Roads, forests, villages shaken by storms and blizzards, deserted villages and uninhabited areas: this is the landscape we walk with a man who does the most anachronistic gestures. The story of Herzog has the ability to represent a new way in Europe which we cross by train, car or plane flying over, which we grasp that Europe is usually only cityscapes, factories, highways, industrial areas. Europe is returned to an almost inconceivable "natural" one-dimensional archaic and secret. And while these adventures, these meetings, these discoveries are located in a surprising "no man's land", approach to a model courtly, in a unique way to relive the myth of the trip as evidence and the theme of heroic pilgrimage.
The author
Werner Herzog, born Werner H. Stipetic ( Monaco of Bavaria, September 5 1942), is a director , writer, writer and actor German . It is an important member of the so-called "New German Cinema . He produced, written and directed over 50 films, has also published books and was director of opera .
Title: Hiking in the ice
Author: Werner Herzog
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Collection: Prose contemporary
Publication: 2008 (the first in 1978)
ISBN: 8877467096
Pages: 77
Price: € 11.00 
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