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    Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
    Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
    Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts
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    Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts

    By Frans Masereel

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    "Look at these powerful black-and-white figures, their features etched in light and shadow . . . Has not this passionate journey had an incomparably deeper and purer impact on you than you have ever felt before?" — Thomas Mann
    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJan 17, 2013
    ISBN9780486139203
    Passionate Journey: A Vision in Woodcuts

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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

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