Werner Herzog writes as fluidly as he does when he films fiction or documentary work. There is the same pleasure in his prose as in the way he confronts every situation to capture it on camera. His literary output is already significant. To Conquest of the Futile, the diary of the Fitzcarraldo shoot, and The Twilight of the World, a meditation on the Japanese soldier who remained on an island for years believing World War II had not ended, he now adds his memoirs, Every One on His Side and God Against All. All three have been published by Blackie Books. Earlier, he chronicled his barefoot march from Munich to Paris in Walking on Ice, his first foray into literary terrain.
