redstone press london first british edition 1987 (1 résultats)

Cloth, small 8vo,16 cm, 170 pp, woodcuts. A novel told in 165 woodcuts. From the blurb - "This is the first British publication of Frans Masereel's 'Passionate Journey' (Mein Stundenbuch ) which was originally published in 1919 by Kurt Wolff and has remained the best known of the 'stories without words'. Thomas Mann wrote in his introduction: 'In Passionate Journey Masereel depicts himself. Before the giant factories of modern industry, their belching smokestacks, their derricks, blast furnaces and forges, he scratches the back of his head, leans his chin on his hand and finally, seized by some mysterious panic, takes to his heels with his arms outstretched.' One can identify that 'mysterious panic' as Masereel's political conscience, and see his work as an expression of his politics: a politics which detests war. nationalism, capitalism, the clergy and all forms of injustice and oppression, while retaining a sense of optimism and a powerful idealism which amounts to a faith in Man's potential for altruism and nobility. Frans Masereel concluded a brief biographical note by writing ' I don't like to speak about myself. I prefer to leave this to my works which I believe reflect my nature, my dreams and my development. ' " Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.