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Book Review: Maus (Complete Part I and II) by Art Spiegelman

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Maus (Complete Part I and II)  by  Art Spiegelman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly Recommended How difficult it is to write the review of a book acclaimed worldwide by critics? It is the only graphic novel to have won a Pulitzer Prize.  Between moral weight and artistic expression, one struggles to find words that do justice to a depiction of quiet lives being lived alongside a loud and brutal sweep of history. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting," -  Milan Kundera   “A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.” - Varlam Shalamov Both these quotes hold profound significance in understanding the dynamics of power struggles, history, and human agency. Yet some memories refuse oblivion; they persist through narrative as a warning and a plea to the humanity. This memory has been itched in a book touching the lives of many and showing all the importance of bea...