Art Spiegelman

Hillary Chute

Chute has been leading the charge with some of the most sophisticated comics criticism to date

The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust

The first masterpiece in comic book history

Wonderful . . . Chute's often lovely, sensitive discussions of individual expression in independent comics seem so right and true

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these practices can accomplish. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Adam Gopnik, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Organized into three loosely chronological sections ("Contexts", "Problems of Representation" and "Legacy"), the book offers translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time. 
 
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.

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Chute has been leading the charge with some of the most sophisticated comics criticism to date

The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust

The first masterpiece in comic book history

Chute has been leading the charge with some of the most sophisticated comics criticism to date

The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust

The first masterpiece in comic book history

Chute has been leading the charge with some of the most sophisticated comics criticism to date

The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust

The first masterpiece in comic book history

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