1. I want to talk about Art Spiegelman's "Maus" as a hard-boiled detective novel.
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11. Spiegelman is the detective and the prime witness is his father Vladek. Every chapter of first book has Spiegelman interrogating Vladek
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12. Beyond the larger mystery of the Holocaust there is the particular mystery of Spiegelman's mom Anja, a survivor who committed suicide.
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@HeerJeet Art has already articulated this formulation, but rather as trying to solve the mystery of his own improbable existence.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Hm. Very interesting about detective genre. Uncomfortable, though, with formulation of Holocaust as "crime" to "solve". -
@HeerJeet Am 3rd generation (grandparents were survivors) and read this more as investigation of spaces and silences left by trauma. - Show replies
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