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‘Maus’ as art and controversy: ‘And here my troubles began’
In a matter of just a few weeks, “Maus,” a more-than-35-year-old graphic novel, gained a huge number of new readers — and a massive boost in sales — after a Tennessee school board last month decided to remove it from its students’ homework.
In the opening pages of volume one of “Maus,” in a flashback to 1958, Vladek Spiegelman harshly tells his tearful 10-year-old son, Artie, whose friends ran off without him, “Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week … then you could see what it is, friends!”
From there unfolds a narrative of betrayal and guilt, genocide, escapes, love, memory, generational bitterness, and survival. And while “Maus” frequently is classified as a graphic “novel,” for the lack of a better descriptor, this is a true story, a biography.
Art Spiegelman’s two volumes — “Maus” and “Maus: And Here My Troubles Began” — relate his parents’ experiences in Poland leading up to World War II, as captives in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, and their later lives in New York, as well as his own efforts to understand his father and mother.
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