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I Don't Speak German

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The Mask of a Polish Jew

The first volume gets published in 1986 and then he continues to publish the, you know, the individual chapters as I understand until 1971. Then the whole book kind of gets released in 1992 and then it wins the Pulitzer. The bulk of the second volume is written in response to some of the response to the critical response to the first volume. He depicts himself as a human being wearing a mouse mask which is a visual metaphor from both the first and the second books do this.

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