| Conquest of the Useless | |
| Author: | Werner Herzog |
| Title Orig: | Die Eroberung des Nutzlosen |
| Orig Lang Code: | de |
| Translator: | Krishna Winston |
| Country: | Germany |
| Language: | German |
| Publisher: | Carl Hanser Verlag |
| Pub Date: | 2004 |
| English Pub Date: | 2009 |
| Pages: | 334 |
| Isbn: | 9783446204577 |
Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (de|Die Eroberung des Nutzlosen) is a 2004 book by the German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It is Herzog's diaries from the troubled, three years long production of the 1982 film Fitzcarraldo.[1] [2]
Kirkus Reviews called the book a "valuable historical record and a strangely stylish, hypnotic literary work". Jonathan Levi of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it reveals Herzog "to be witty, compassionate, microscopically observant and -- your call -- either maniacally determined or admirably persevering".