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- Announced under a two-book deal with The Bodley Head, the memoir follows a new book telling Hiroo Onoda, titled Twilight World and translated by poet Michael Hoffman.
Onoda was a spy in the Imperial Japanese Werner Herzog Army fought in World War II and refused to surrender in 1945. Because he viewed news of the war’s end as propaganda from the other side. He finally resigned from his post in the Philippine jungle nearly three decades later, in 1974. When his former commander was sent to rescue him.
Werner Herzog later became a farmer and opened a nature camp for children in Japan and died in 2014 at 91.
“A moving portrait of Onoda’s seemingly pointless struggle offers. Herzog’s WackyAn in-depth meditation on the human condition,” says Bodley Head editor-in-chief Jörg Hensgen. “Build an opera during the middle of the forest; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; Descending into an active volcano; Herzog’s Wacky Life in the desert among grizzly bears – Werner Herzog has always been fascinated by extreme human experiences.
The German director’s book on Onoda is due next summer, his memoirs to follow in 2023. And explore a career that includes wild productions such as Ficraldo. And Aguirre, The Wrath from God, as well as the latest documentaries from the digital age, volcanoes, and shooting stars.
Previously in 2004, Herzog had published a book on the origins of Ficraldo with the title The Conquest of the Useless Eisner. Go on the ice.
While you wait for the (inevitably weird) stories his new memoir has to offer. Here are some of the craziest stories and poetic “vernisms” of his life.