The City (French: La Ville: cent bois gravés) is a 1925 wordless novel by Flemish artist Frans Masereel.

Masereel left to study art on his own in Paris[1] and volunteered as a translator for the Red Cross in Geneva during World War I.

Instead, a series of images of life in a big city are on display, showing people from different backgrounds and stages of life: a state funeral, the inside of a poor family's home, a woman's lifeless body dragged out of a canal, prostitutes and entertainers, courtrooms and factories.

[5] The visuals bear a strong German Expressionist influence—what critic Lothar Lang [de] describes as "the pictorial vocabulary of Expressionism".

[8] It was first published in 1925 by Albert Morencé in Paris, under the French title La Ville: cent bois gravés.