Sales of Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' have surged online since a Tennessee school board's decision to ban the graphic novel
, published in full in 1991, tells Spiegelman’s father’s experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust and at Auschwitz, albeit via anthropomorphic animals like mice, cats, and pigs.is considered not only one of the greatest graphic novels of all time but one of the best books of the 20th century, yet the McMinn County Board of Education voted 10-0 in favor of banning it from its schools.
“The values of the county are understood. There is some rough, objectionable language in this book, and knowing that and hearing from many of you and discussing it, two or three of you came by my office to discuss that,” McMinn County Director of Schools Lee Parkison said during the board meeting . Speaking to CNN, Spiegelman warned of the danger of banning books, especially books that caution against the dangers of fascism.“It has the breath of autocracy and fascism about it,” Spiegelman added. “I’m still trying to figure out how this could be… I think of it as a harbinger of things to come.”came one day before Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27.
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