De la pellicule à la page. Werner Herzog, écrivain du cinéma
From Filming to Writing. Werner Herzog, a Writer of Cinema

Summary/Abstract: Werner Herzog is known as a German director of documentaries and fiction, but he is also the author of two works that can be read like diaries: Of Walking in Ice (1978) and Conquest of the Useless (2004). The former recounts the journey the author took on foot when he learned of Lotte Eisner’s impending death, a death he tried to ward off by walking and writing; the latter was written during the filming of Fitzcarraldo in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. In the essay that follows we shall explore how these two works can be read through the lens of cinema, while remaining autonomous objects in their literary form. Werner Herzog moves from film to page, from the camera to the pencil, becoming a writer while remaining a director. It is not a chasm, but a hyphen between the two mediums that he subtly draws, leaving the imprint of his wildest dreams on both image and page.

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