HERE is a suggestion that should
be included in the peace terms:
that the youth of all aggressor
nations be forced to read, study, and
remember Frans Masereel's "Danse
Macabre." The book can be understood
by peasants and intellectuals alike,
and men, women, and children of all
nationalities may read it easily without the help of a dictionary. For it
is written in the universal language
of drawings in black and white, and
its plot leaves nothing to guess. It
tells the story of war; war descending
upon the earth, destroying, mutilating, burning until there is nothing left
except hunger behind an empty counter.
Dat schreef Marianne Hauser in 1943 in de
Saterday Review. Kort daarvoor maakte Masereel dit schilderij (50 x 32 cm), dat te koop is bij Hauff en Auverman te Berlijn.
