6. Spiegelman has a longstanding affinity for hardboiled genre which is worth tracing before we talk about Maus.
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7. Prior to Maus, Spiegelman's longest work was "Ace Hole, Midget Detective" -- a parody of the hardboiled genre.
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9. Post-Maus, Spiegelman helped organize & edit comics adaptations of several hard-boiled inflected works including Auster's City of Glass
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10. So let's read Maus as detective novel. It's about Spiegelman trying to solve the greatest crime of the twentieth century, the Holocaust
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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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13. Vladek Spiegelman is not just a witness but also a suspect. He destroys a key piece of evidence: Anja's diary.
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14. Volume 1 of Maus ends with Spiegelman distraught at learning of destruction of diary, calling his father a "murderer."
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15. Larger narrative arc of Maus is Spiegelman/detective realizing his first accusation (Vladek as murderer) was wrong
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16. As he comes to term with enormity of Holocaust, Spiegelman/detective realizes his early judgement of Vladek was too hasty.
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17. On the back cover of first paperback edition of Maus is a map of Europe. Spiegelman once told me origins of that map.
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18. Origins of Maus back cover was Dell Map Back mystery series of 1940s: http://www.mysteryscenemag.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=92:dell-map-back-mysteries-they-dont-make-em-like-that-anymore&catid=20:articles …
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