Maus Now by Hillary Chute Hardback Book 9780241509050

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics authors and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelmans Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece MausThe most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust Wall Street JournalIt is hard to overstate Art Spiegelmans effect on postwar American culture The Pulitzer Prizewinning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature history and art Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrainshifting status Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman Robert Storr Ruth Franklin and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditionsOffering translations of important French Hebrew and German essays on Maus for the first time this collection edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute an expert on comics and graphic narratives assembles the worlds best writing on this classic work of graphic testimonyThe first masterpiece in comic book history The New Yorker on MausNo summary can do justice to Spiegelmans...