Russia Bans Spiegelman’s “Maus”
Art Spiegelman has called Russian bookstores’ decision to stop selling copies of “Maus” – his Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust – the “harbinger of a dangerous thingâ€, as authorities move to remove Nazi insignia ahead of the 70th anniversary of the allied victory in the second world war. Moscow’s major bookstores have withdrawn copies of Spiegelman’s book – which includes a Swastika on its cover – in an attempt to comply with a law banning Nazi propaganda. The 70th anniversary of Victory Day is 9 May. “It’s a real shame because this is a book that is about memory,†Spiegelman told the Guardian. “We don’t want cultures to erase memory.â€
