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| | On Spiegelman's Maus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Now, he is in many respects much more interesting and complex than his father, because he takes on the task of trying to make some artistic sense of his own pain, the emotional scars he carries as a result of his family's experiences. |
 | | In calling attention to its own creation, Maus locates that origin in the emotional pain of the artist, Artie, who is driven, for reasons he does not fully understand, to come to terms with his family's past (his brother's death, this mother's suicide, his father's wartime experiences). |
 | | The artist's name and the dates which presumably refer to the writing of Maus, like a painter's signature at the bottom of a painting, are one last reminder that what we have been dealing with is a fiction, something made up. |
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