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Best books to read after Maus by Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman's Maus is the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic memoir of his father's survival of Auschwitz. These recommendations explore the Holocaust memoir and graphic novel traditions, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the work that uses formal innovation to make testimony reach readers who might not have been reached by conventional means.
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Night
by Elie Wiesel
The essential prose Holocaust memoir companion — Wiesel's 120-page account of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the closest in emotional impact to Maus for readers who want to continue in Holocaust testimony.
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Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
The psychiatrist's Auschwitz testimony — Frankl's short, essential account of surviving four camps and the philosophical framework he developed; the companion for Maus readers who want the experience of Auschwitz from a different survivor's perspective.
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In the Shadow of No Towers
by Art Spiegelman
The companion Spiegelman work — his graphic response to September 11 from his home in Lower Manhattan, showing the same formal self-consciousness and the same wrestling with how to represent catastrophe through comics.
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Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
The companion graphic memoir — Satrapi's account of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution; the most celebrated graphic memoir since Maus and the proof that Maus's formal innovation was generative.
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Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel
The family-secret graphic memoir companion — Bechdel's account of her relationship with her father and her discovery of his closeted homosexuality; the other major literary graphic memoir that uses the form to explore family trauma across generations.
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The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
The combined edition of Persepolis I and II — Satrapi's complete coming-of-age under the Islamic Revolution; the natural graphic memoir companion after Maus for readers who want more of the form used at full literary ambition.
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Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
The Italian chemist's Auschwitz prose testimony — Levi's calm, precise account of the camp's logic and the relationships formed inside it; the prose companion for readers who want to continue the Auschwitz experience that Vladek describes in Maus.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
The fiction companion — the true story of Lale Sokolov in the same Auschwitz-Birkenau that Vladek describes in Maus, showing a different perspective on the same camp through a different narrative form.
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