Undici conversazioni tratte da altrettanti numeri di “Fata Morgana”. Undici conversazioni che sintetizzano il progetto intorno al quale è nata nella primavera del 2006 la rivista. Allora non abbiamo voluto accompagnare la nascita del quadrimestrale con un editoriale, convinti che se avesse funzionato si sarebbe presentato da solo. Ma qualcosa ora è giusto dire. Una rivista è in primo luogo un gesto (collettivo), tracciando il quale si viene a determinare un campo. Il gesto tracciato da “Fa...

Das Leben meint es nicht gut mit Moses Elkanah Herzog. Schon die zweite Ehefrau lässt ihn sitzen, zu allem Übel auch noch zugunsten seines besten Freundes, die Universitätskarriere stagniert und auch die selbstverordnete Europareise bringt keine Erleichterung. Herzog steckt fest. In seiner Verzweiflung schreibt er Briefe an Philosophen - lebende wie tote -, an Freunde, an Gott. Saul Bellow ist mit seinem Roman "Herzog" ein vielgestaltiges Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst gelungen. Für seine Arb...

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances a...

An urgent meditation on the nature of truth, by the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon Werner Herzog‘Herzog is in a category of one … A complete original’ MARINA HYDE‘Herzog really is a kind of genius’ SPECTATOR**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025**What if a lie could be true?At the heart of this fascinating and iconoclastic book lies Werner Herzog’s ...

Questo libro è la storia di un viaggio in certo modo straordinario: il viaggio a piedi intrapreso nell’inverno 1974 da Werner Herzog, per recarsi da Monaco a Parigi, dove lo aspettava un’amica malata, Lotte Eisner, storica e studiosa del cinema tedesco. Una testimonianza d’affetto che, secondo Herzog, avrebbe dovuto contribuire a tenere in vita una persona cara. Strade, boschi, paesi squassati da temporali e bufere di neve, villaggi deserti e campi disabitati: questo il paesaggio che perco...

Brought to you by Penguin.Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: wh...

In 1944, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is ordered to hold Lubang Island in the Philippines at all costs, and he obeys until long after the war is over.The Twilight World follows Onoda as he wages a private war in the jungle for thirty years after Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. Convinced that every leaflet announcing peace is enemy propaganda, he survives on stolen rice, wild fruit and dwindling hope, watching his comrades die or surrender one by one.

This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequentcollaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and the terrifying Nosferatu - and more recently with ...

**Named a Best Book of 2025 by BloombergFrom legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our “post-truth” era?**For over half a century, Werner Herzog has challenged, enriched, and expanded our understanding of the truth. His films and books have mixed fiction and nonfiction, do...

Construir una òpera al mig de la selva, caminar de Munich a París, endinsar-se en un volcà actiu, conviure amb ossos grizzly: l'obra de Werner Herzog investiga l'experiència extrema, la confrontació entre l'home i la natura. L'any 1997, Werner Herzog era a Tòquio per dirigir una òpera. Els seus amfitrions li van demanar a quina personalitat important de Japó li agradaria conèixer i ell va contestar sense dubtar: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda era un exsoldat famós per haver defensat una illa de les Fi...

Regista, esploratore, poeta, visionario: tutti questi tratti si fondono in una delle figure più originali e irriducibili del panorama cinematografico contemporaneo. Famoso per i suoi film «estremi», in questo generoso libro-intervista Werner Herzog ne ripercorre la genesi, la lavorazione e l'impatto su critica e pubblico. Tuttavia quel che più conta, per lui, è individuare lo strettissimo legame tra i suoi film e la sua vita, tanto stretto da far sì che i primi appaiano un naturale prolung...

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog in...