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349: 22: 204: 126: 293: 376:—a visual style he continued with throughout his career. He expresses a broad variety of emotions through understated, unexaggerated gestures. Most characters are given simple, passive expressions, which provides emphatic contrast with characters expressing more explicit emotion—love, despair, ecstasy. He considered 380:
partly autobiographical, which he emphasized with a pair of self-portraits that open the book—in the first, Masereel sits at his desk with his woodcutting tools, and in the second appears the protagonist, dressed in identical fashion with the first. Literature scholar Martin S. Cohen wrote that
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that replaced it—artists of the time took to the rougher woodcut to express angst and frustration. From 1917 Masereel began publishing books of woodcut prints, using similar imagery to make political statements on the strife of the common people rather than to illustrate the lives of Christ and the
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remarked, "If everything were to perish, all the books, monuments, photographs and memoirs, and only the woodcuts that [Masereel] has executed in ten years were spared, our whole present-day world could be reconstructed from them." Critic Chris Lanier attributes the protagonist's appeal to
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Look at these powerful black-and-white figures, their features etched in light and shadow. You will be captivated from beginning to end: from the first pictured showing the train plunging through the dense smoke and bearing the hero toward life, to the very last picture showing the skeleton-faced
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after he enters a city. It is by turns comic and tragic: the man is rejected by a prostitute with whom he has fallen in love. He also takes trips to different locales around the world. In the end, the man leaves the city for the woods, raises his arms in praise of nature, and dies. His spirit
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went through multiple printings, and the book was popular throughout Europe, where it sold over 100,000 copies. Soon other publishers also engaged in the publication of wordless novels, though none matched the success of Masereel's, which Beronä has called "perhaps the most seminal work in the
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While the graphic narrative bears strong similarities to the comics that were proliferating in the early 20th century, Masereel's book emerged from a fine arts environment and was aimed at such an audience. Its influence was felt not in comics but in the worlds of literature, film, music, and
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Laßt seine kräftig schwarz-weißen, licht-und schattenbewegten Gesichte ablaufen, vom ersten angefangen, vom dem im Qualme schief dahinbrausenden Eisenbahnwagen, der den Helden ins Leben trägt, bis zu dem Sternenbummel eines Entfleischten zu guter Letzt; wo seid ihr? Von welcher allbeliebten
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published one in the 1980s. It has also appeared in many other languages, including Chinese popular editions in 1933 and 1957. Some editions since 1928 have cut two pages from the book: the 24th, in which the protagonist has sex with a prostitute; and the 149th, in which the protagonist,
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later in 1919. Masereel's work was lauded in the art world in the earlier half of the 20th century, but has since been neglected outside of Western comics circles, where Masereel's wordless novels are seen as anticipating the development of the
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readers to Masereel's avoiding a preaching tone in the work; "rather", Lanier states, "he gives us a story as a device through which we can examine ourselves". This openness in the images invites individual interpretation, according to Beronä.
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In contrast to the works of Masereel's imitators, the images do not form an unfolding sequence of actions but are rather like individual snapshots of events in the protagonist's life. The book opens with a pair of literary quotations:
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While not as successful at first in the United States, American reviewers recognized Masereel as father of the wordless novel at least as early as the 1930s. A revival in publishing interest in wordless novels in the 1970s saw
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advertising. Masereel's work was widely recognized with awards and exhibitions in the early 20th century, but has since been mostly forgotten outside of Western comics circles, where his wordless novels, and
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The German edition was particularly popular, and went through several editions in the 1920s with sales surpassing 100,000 copies. Its success prompted other publishers and artists to produce wordless novels.
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in 1907, Masereel left to study art on his own in Paris. During World War I he volunteered as a translator for the Red Cross in Geneva, drew newspaper political cartoons, and copublished a magazine
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with those from socialist ideology. The book derives some of its visual vocabulary—framing, sequencing, and viewpoints—from silent film. Thomas Mann named the book his favourite film.
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Impressed by the book, German publisher Kurt Wolff arranged for its German publication and continued to publish German editions of Masereel's books. Wolf's edition of
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mit seinen 167 Holzschintten potentiell alles das, was ich danach geschaffen habe, denn ich habe wo anders und später eine ganze Anzahl von Themen daraus entwickelt.
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Unterhaltung glaubt ihr euch hingenommen, wenn auch auf unvergleichlich innigere und reinere Weise hingenommen, als es euch dort denn doch wohl je zuteil geworden?
91:, and the book went on to sell over 100,000 copies in Europe. Its success encouraged other publishers to print wordless novels, and the genre flourished in the 157:, whose political beliefs left an impression on the young Masereel. He often accompanied his stepfather in socialist demonstrations. After a year at the 400:. These religious books made frequent use of allegory, also prominent in Masereel's works—though Masereel replaces the religious archetypes of mediaeval 21: 1470: 1266: 560:
Ich glaube, daß darin das Wesentliche von dem liegt, was ich sagen wollte; ich drückte darin ein wenig meine Philosophie aus, vielleicht enthält
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to Masereel to arrange German publication in 1920. It was printed from the original woodblocks in an edition of 700 copies under the title
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figure among the stars. Has not this passionate journey had an incomparably deeper and purer impact on you than you have ever felt before?
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with its 167 woodcuts contains everything I have created since, because I have developed a number of themes from it in my later work.
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In the early 20th century there was a revival in interest in mediaeval woodcuts, particularly in religious books such as the
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Wordless novel scholar David Beronä saw the work as a catalogue of human activity, and in this regard compared it to
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rises from him, stomps on the heart of his dead body, and waves to the reader as it sets off across the universe.
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released an inexpensive "people's edition" of the book in Germany with an introduction by German novelist
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after publication in a popular edition in the US in 1948. An edition did not see print in England until
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I believe that it contained the essence of what I wanted to say; I expressed my philosophy, and perhaps
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The book won an English-speaking audience after its 1922 US publication under the title
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The original titles of Masereel's first two wordless novels allude to religious works:
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restored the pages in a 1971 edition, and American editions since then have kept them.
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in an edition of 200 copies. It was printed directly from the original woodblocks.
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Behold! I do not give lectures, or a little charity: When I give, I give myself.
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it expressed themes that were to become universal in the wordless novel genre.
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saints. In 1918 he created the first such book to feature a narrative,
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The Silent Shout: Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, and the Novel in Woodcuts
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reproduction. The 1926 edition had an introduction by German writer
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Masereel followed the book with dozens of others, beginning with
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The story follows the life of a prototypical early 20th-century
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The protagonist finishes with a posthumous walk in the cosmos.
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The original title alludes to the mediaeval devotional
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dressed in the same manner as the book's protagonist
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A black-and-white drawing of a man leaning out of an arriving train.
French
wordless novel
Flemish
Frans Masereel
everyman
woodcut
Expressionism
25 Images of a Man's Passion
Switzerland
World War I
Kurt Wolff
Thomas Mann
interwar years
The Sun
graphic novel
everyman
Three black-and-white panels. In the first, a smiling man in glasses sits at a table to the left, holding something. The table is strewn with a large number of objects. In the second panel, the man leans on a wall, watching boats pass in the river to the left. In the third panel, the man walks along a street amongst a crowd, his face looking up
Frans Masereel
Blankenberge
Ghent
Ghent Academy of Fine Arts
Les Tablettes
woodcut
Biblia pauperum
wood engraving
25 Images of a Man's Passion
A black-and-white illustration of a well-dressed skeleton wandering amongst the cosmos.
woodcut
Kurt Wolff

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