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.

Le Monde de Maus

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal___________________________________________________________________________It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Offering translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection edited by 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.___________________________________________________________________________'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on Maus'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik on Maus'Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus

Maus Now - Selected Writing

A New York Times Notable BookFilled with beautiful color art, dynamic storytelling, and insightful analysis, Hillary Chute reveals what makes one of the most critically acclaimed and popular art forms so unique and appealing, and how it got that way."In her wonderful book, Hillary Chute suggests that we're in a blooming, expanding era of the art. Chute's often lovely, sensitive discussions of individual expression in independent comics seem so right and true." - New York Times Book Review Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are annual blockbusters worldwide. What is the essence of comics' appeal? What does this art form do that others can't?     Whether you've read every comic you can get your hands on or you're just starting your journey, Why Comics? has something for you. Author Hillary Chute chronicles comics culture, explaining underground comics (also known as "comix") and graphic novels, analyzing their evolution, and offering fascinating portraits of the creative men and women behind them. Chute reveals why these works-a blend of concise words and striking visuals-are an extraordinarily powerful form of expression that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally. Focusing on ten major themes-disaster, superheroes, sex, the suburbs, cities, punk, illness and disability, girls, war, and queerness-Chute explains how comics get their messages across more effectively than any other form. "Why Disaster?" explores how comics are uniquely suited to convey the scale and disorientation of calamity, from Art Spiegelman's representation of the Holocaust and 9/11 to Keiji Nakazawa's focus on Hiroshima. "Why the Suburbs?" examines how the work of Chris Ware and Charles Burns illustrates the quiet joys and struggles of suburban existence; and "Why Punk?" delves into how comics inspire and reflect the punk movement's DIY aesthetics-giving birth to a democratic medium increasingly embraced by some of today's most significant artists. Featuring full-color reproductions of more than one hundred essential pages and panels, including some famous but never-before-reprinted images from comics legends, Why Comics? is an indispensable guide that offers a deep understanding of this influential art form and its masters.

Why Comics? - From Underground to Everywhere

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 ouvre à la résonance intemporelle.

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