2. I should add my thoughts on Spiegelman inspired by upcoming AGO retrospective on his work: http://www.ago.net/art-spiegelmans-co-mix-a-retrospective …
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3. Maus has always inspired debates about its genre-identity. Is it comics or graphic novel or graphic memoir? Non-fiction or fiction?
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4. One obvious answer is that Maus is based on non-fiction material artfully shaped into narrative form. The craft of shaping often ignored
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5. One way to understand Maus is to see that the structure owes much to hard-boiled detective fiction.
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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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8. Spiegelman and
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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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@sarahrhamburg Well, "solve" in the way hard-boiled detectives "solve" crime -- which is not to really solve them but become aware of them.
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@MikeWenthe@sarahrhamburg Exactly, which is why l linked Spiegelman with Chabon.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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