Maus Now Selected Writing

<p><b>A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece <i>Maus</i></b> <p><b>'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust'</b> <i>Wall Street Journal</i><br>___________________________________________________________________________ <p>It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece <i>Maus </i>has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, <i>Maus Now</i> is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of <i>Maus </i>from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. <p>Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on <i>Maus </i>for the first time, this collection edited by 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.<br>___________________________________________________________________________ <p><b>'The first masterpiece in comic book history'</b> The New Yorker on <i>Maus</i> <p><b>'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill'</b> Adam Gopnik on <i>Maus</i> <p><b>'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect'</b> Philip Pullman on <i>Maus</i></p>