25 Images of a Man's Passion
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25 Images of a Man's Passion, or The Passion of a Man is the first wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel, first published in 1918 under the French title 25 images de la passion d'un homme. T
The story parallels that of Ernst Toller's The Transformation. Pictured: a production of The Transformation on 30 September 1919
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Passionate Journey
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Passionate Journey, or My Book of Hours * Mon livre d'heures, is a wordless novel of 1919 by Flemish artist Frans Masereel. The story is told in 167 captionless prints, and is the longest and best-sel
25 Images of a Man's Passion
…wordless novel, a genre that saw its greatest popularity in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. Masereel followed the book in 1919 with his best-known work, Passionate Journey. Masereel had grown up reading revolutionary socialist literature, and expressed his politics in A Man's Passion; the work is also filled with religious…
The protagonist arrives at the city by train.
Masereel depicts himself (left) dressed in the same manner as the book's protagonist (center, right).
The protagonist finishes with a posthumous walk in the cosmos.
The 149th image, which was cut from some editions