Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
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Belgian-born Frans Masereel (1889–1972) was one of the greatest woodcut artists of the twentieth century. Ingeniously portraying the human experience through dramatic art, this novel-without-words — crafted from 167 intricate woodcuts — is considered to be the Flemish artist's masterpiece.
A feast for the eyes and the imagination, this powerful visual narrative details the life of an ordinary man. From the first bustling frame to the last haunting image, we are deeply drawn into the hero's day-to-day encounters, and discover a spirit in quest — one that we can profoundly relate to, emotionally and intellectually. Through each extraordinarily vivid depiction, readers feel the hero's happiness, grief, awe, and despair.
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Passionate Journey - Frans Masereel
Copyright
Introduction copyright © 2007 by David A. Beronä
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2007, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published as Mon Livre d’heures, Geneva, in 1919. A new Introduction has been specially prepared for this Dover edition.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Masereel, Frans, 1889–1972.
[Mon livre d’heures. English]
Passionate journey : a vision in woodcuts / Frans Masereel.
p. cm.
Unabridged republication of the work originally published as Mon livre d’heures, Geneva, in 1919.
9780486139203
I. Masereel, Frans, 1889–1972. II. Title. III. Title: Mon livre d’heures.
NE1155.5.M3 A4 2007
769.92—dc22
2007031398
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
When Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929, was asked to name the movie that had made the greatest impression on him, he responded instead with a work of fiction—a novel in pictures by Frans Masereel. This influential