Passionate Journey is Masereel’s wordless novel with a name change. Right after the war, a German title such as Mein Stundenbuch or the esoteric “My Book of Hours” would not have been a good marketing move.
- Title: Passionate Journey
- Author and Illustrator: Masereel, Frans
- Forward by Romain Rolland
- Introduction: Thomas Mann (translated from the German by Joseph M. Bernstein)
- Date of publication: 1948
- Publisher: Lear Publishing
- Place of publication: New York
- Printer: ?
- Copyright: Artist?
- Dimensions:
- Dust jacket: Yes
- slipcase: unlikely
- Binding: hard cover
- Language: English titles, etc
- Paginated: unpaginated
- Printed: verso and recto
- Edition: Trade only
- References:
- Description: frontispiece; 8vo. 22pp of text with 165 full page reproduced woodcut illustrations on unnumbered leaves. Publisher’s tan cloth in dust jacket.
- This edition deleted two image that were in the original. They depicted the hero urinating from the top of a building on pedestrians in the street below and a scene of fornication.
(translated from German by Joseph Bernstein)
