My Book of Hours. Collection A Novel Without Words.
Martin de Halleux Editions| N° d'inventaire | 25741 |
| Format | 17.5 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 224 p., illustrated, bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782490393138 |
My Book of Hours, a great masterpiece by Frans Masereel, was acclaimed in 1919 by the greatest writers of his time who then fully recognized it as one of their own.
"I know few plastic works that are such a faithful portrait of their author, and with its sadness, its audacity, its gravity, it immediately touched me." Stefan Zweig
At once a coming-of-age novel, a picaresque adventure story and a biographical tale, My Book of Hours relates the wanderings of the alter ego of the author struggling with the realities of the world.
Structured in a series of narrative sequences, the story takes shape as he wanders and daydreams. A self-declared libertarian anarchist, he prefers to enjoy the pleasures of life rather than the joys of work.
A citizen of the world who ignores borders and prejudices, he shocks narrow minds and lives his life without constraints in complete freedom.
A preface by Jacques Tardi accompanied by an unpublished drawing in homage to Frans Masereel
My Book of Hours, a great masterpiece by Frans Masereel, was acclaimed in 1919 by the greatest writers of his time who then fully recognized it as one of their own.
"I know few plastic works that are such a faithful portrait of their author, and with its sadness, its audacity, its gravity, it immediately touched me." Stefan Zweig
At once a coming-of-age novel, a picaresque adventure story and a biographical tale, My Book of Hours relates the wanderings of the alter ego of the author struggling with the realities of the world.
Structured in a series of narrative sequences, the story takes shape as he wanders and daydreams. A self-declared libertarian anarchist, he prefers to enjoy the pleasures of life rather than the joys of work.
A citizen of the world who ignores borders and prejudices, he shocks narrow minds and lives his life without constraints in complete freedom.
A preface by Jacques Tardi accompanied by an unpublished drawing in homage to Frans Masereel