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Maus: A Unique and Insider’s Way of Narrating the Holocaust

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Maus: A Unique and Insider’s Way of Narrating the Holocaust It is not even easy to discuss the experience of writing about the Holocaust . There are many works born from the testimonies and pens of those who directly lived through this phenomenon. Their children and grandchildren continue to keep this legacy alive, whether through academic studies or other forms of creation. Today, even with a vast literature on this subject, which has now become a field in its own right, there can still be points that have not yet been sufficiently addressed or brought to consciousness on an emotional level. Moreover, the debates have lost little of their intensity, as current political developments constantly require the historical to be remembered and debated anew. I feel my consciousness and my spirit are profoundly inadequate in understanding the mass persecution people have endured and its effects and consequences. This feeling of inadequacy has been the most significant obstacle preventing me fr...