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Reading <i>Maus</i> — 6 Comments

  1. Maus may be the finest storytelling I’ve read in my fifty years. It seems so perfectly suited to be adapted into an animated thing and I will burn down any studio that would attempt such a thing for heresy.

  2. I read it some 20 or 30 years ago, maybe only the first volume. Like you, Neo, I thought “this can’t work.” But it made an impression. I think it still comes to mind when I hear the word “resourceful.”

  3. Such an interesting review, I used the link in your article to Amazon to buy 2 copies of the Complete Maus in hardcover. I’m going to give one of them to a friend whose father’s story prior to coming to America is very similar to Vladek’s.

    The hardcover version is on sale for almost half off.

  4. I gifted the two books to my Jewish step-mother and never heard back. I expected some comment, but I might as well have dropped the books in a well. My suspicion is that she was offended by the treatment.

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