Since to the success of Maus, many more holocaust graphic novels have been published. Even the popular Anne Frank's diary and the Warsay ghetto story were turned into a graphic novels. Moreover, there are plenty of new graphic novels that have tried to show that Spiegelman's father was not the only one who suffered during that time.
Today, I would like to mention the one that caught my attention the most: Rutu Modan's The Property. As you may already know, Maus was extremely controversial even though it was the Spiegelman's own father story. In the case of the Isralei cartoonist Rutu Modan's The Property, there is an issue that have open a strong debate: The plot of the story is completely fictional.
The Property tells the story of an old woman called Regina who takes her granddaughter to Warsaw in order to reclaim a family property lost during World War II. After spending time in Warsaw, Regina starts remembering difficult things about her past and her granddaughter starts wondering the real reason of their journey. I don't want to spoil the novel! so I encourage you to read it and post your opinions below.
As a conclusion, I would say I couldn't resist wondering: Do you think the authors of Holocaust graphic novels published after Maus were seeking for success with a proved formula or they did it just because they really had something to say?
I believe that when something is said in a book that becomes popular, there is a wave of intelectual writing about the same topic. In this case not only the topic, but also the way the story was presented as a graphic novel.
ResponderEliminarI haven't read "The Property", so I can not say that the author was seeking for success, but in most cases when a particular topic is covered in a book then a hundred of authors cover the same topic in their recent novels, and as a consequence of this, readers tend to think that it's another book of the same topic. Therefore, when you read it, there are no new ideas so we can deduce that authors write about it becuase they were trying to be popular.