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Maus Now

Selected Writing

by Hillary Chute
Fred Berman
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Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the original publication of “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; it’s hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and has enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A timeless work in more ways than one, Maus has also often been at the center of debates, as its recent ban by the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board from the district’s English language-arts curriculum demonstrates.
    Maus Now: Selected Writing collects responses to Spiegelman’s monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material’s complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections— “Contexts,” “Problems of Representation,” and “Legacy”—and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus.
    Maus is revelatory and generative in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar Hillary Chute, an expert on comics and graphic narratives, assembles the world’s best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF containing images from the book.

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    November 15, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9780593592458
      • File size: 365840 KB
      • Duration: 12:42:09

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Fred Berman weighs his words as he carefully delivers the works of critics and scholars discussing Art Spiegelman's groundbreaking graphic novel, MAUS. Together, they seem to dissect every aspect of the classic work about life in a Nazi concentration camp. It focuses on the impact of the camp's Nazi staff on a couple and the son they have years later, depicting the prisoners as mice and the Nazis as cats, a device that serves to heighten the horror. Berman does not embellish the rich reviews and scholarly papers; he presents them in a simple, understated manner. Originally published as a comic strip in the underground magazine RAW from 1980 to 1991, the work was later collected in 1991 and is now hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever created. M.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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