Conquest of the Useless - Fever Dreams in the Jungle

Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, In 1982, the visionary directory Werner Herzog released In his preface, Herzog warns that the diary entries collected in

About the author

Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films, including Aguirre, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Best Fiend, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Twilight World, and directed as many operas. He has appeared as an actor in Jack Reacher, The Mandalorian, and The Simpsons, and exhibited an art installation, Hearsay of the Soul, at the 2012 Whitney Biennale and the Getty Museum. He also founded his own Rogue Film School as a counterpoint to what is taught in most film schools around the world. He lives in Munich and Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Werner Herzog, Herzog Werner, Krishna Winston
• Assisted by: Winston Krishna (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2024
• EAN: 9780593832134
• ISBN: 978-0-593-83213-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 202 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Memoirs, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film production: technical & background skills, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs