Seul roman graphique à avoir remporté le prix Pulitzer, Maus s'est imposé comme un des livres les plus importants du XX? siècle en changeant pour toujours notre façon de parler de la Shoah et notre regard sur la bande dessinée.La recrudescence des actes antisémites et de censure aux États-Unis au cours des dernières années n'a pu que renforcer Hillary Chute dans son projet de rassembler les meilleures critiques et analyses écrites sur ce best-seller planétaire vendu à plus de dix millions d'exemplaires dans le monde et à plus d'un million en France. Trente ans après sa publication, d'éminents spécialistes - écrivains, historiens, journalistes et artistes - nous permettent ainsi de mieux comprendre pourquoi Maus demeure une expérience de lecture unique.Composé de vingt et un textes majeurs et enrichi d'environ quatre-vingts illustrations commentées, Le Monde de Maus se présente donc comme le livre indispensable pour redécouvrir cette oeuvre à la résonance intemporelle.
Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's Maus ("the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" --The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the original publication of "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; it's hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and has enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A timeless work in more ways than one, Maus has also often been at the center of debates, as its recent ban by the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board from the district's English language-arts curriculum demonstrates.
Maus Now: Selected Writing collects responses to Spiegelman's monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material's complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections-- "Contexts," "Problems of Representation," and "Legacy"--and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus.
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.
