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I am due for a reread

Took me a really long time to get to it but I finally read it last year. Should be required reading in schools.

You think I have tears in my eyes when I finish this book, but not at all, I have dust in my eye! Maus is one of the most important books in the world.

RS, "Rot Spanien". He wasn't a communist, he was 16 years old. After liberation, he went to live in Paris. He didn't set foot in Spain again until the 80s, well unter Franco's death.

Spiegelman's less than flattering portrayal of his father in old age gives the whole things so much more humanity. These aren't characters in a story, this is just some old guy who lives in Queens

Yeah, he wrote Maus II and it’s fantastic!

I have copies in Polish, English and French. It's just one of the most important books ever written.

I was thinking about this today. "I feel so inadequate trying to reconstruct a reality that was worse than my darkest dreams."

à lire et relire... (surtout maintenant ?) 🇫🇷 to read and reread... (especially now?) 🇺🇸

Saw the Spiegelman exhibition in Angoulême, 2012 (he won Grand Prix in 2011). Reading Maus from the originals was a profound experience. Maus is essential reading for everyone.

This was required reading in highschool for me, and I'm very glad it was.