This time, the great filmmaker Werner Herzog tells the true story of soldier Odona, who spent 29 years on the island he was assigned to, which has been the subject of many movies and books.
Successful director Werner Herzog goes to Tokyo to stage the opera Chushingura in 1997.
Japanese soldier Onoda, who was assigned to Lubang Island in the Philippines during World War II and was told not to give up defending the island at all costs until the imperial army returned, resists for months, years and decades in his Don Quixote-like struggle without giving up. The soldier, who is completely unaware of the fact that the war has already ended and the developments in the world, has only one news waiting patiently in the forest, where he has loosened his tongue over time: Japan’s victory.
This time, the great filmmaker Werner Herzog tells the true story of Onoda, a soldier who spent 29 years on the island he was assigned to, which has been the subject of many movies and books.
“A wonderful first novel.”
The New Yorker
“A meticulously written, lyrical tale… In Herzog’s feverish search for dazzling truths, he offers readers a gateway to human madness, self-discipline, and domination – surely his life’s work.”
The Washington Post
“A striking story ranging from obsession to madness, from the master of this narrow but productive genre.”
Kirkus Reviews
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TITLE
Book Name: Dünyanın Alacakaranlığı (The Twilight World)
Author: Werner Herzog
Translator: Pınar Akkoç
Publisher: Can Publications
Series: Contemporary
Genre: Novel
Number of Pages: 104
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WERNER HERZOG was born on September 5, 1942 in Munich. Herzog, whose family took refuge in a village in Bavaria towards the end of World War II and grew up in difficult conditions, worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory in his 20s to finance his first films. He received the Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival for his first feature film, Lebenszeichen (1968). Herzog Aguirre, one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema, der Zorn Gottes (1972), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Mein liebster Feind (1999), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue He strengthened his place in cinema by receiving many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, with films and documentaries such as Dawn (2006) Encounters at the End of the World (2007). Herzog, who also directed opera, published autobiographical works, including Walking on Ice (1978). Published in 2021, The Twilight World is the author’s first novel.
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PINAR AKKOÇ was born in 1985 in Bocholt, Germany. He completed his primary and secondary education in Germany. He received his undergraduate education at Istanbul University, Department of English Language and Literature. He completed his master’s and doctoral studies at the Department of German Language and Literature at the same university. Faculty member since 2012. Simultaneously, he continues his translation work.
