Maus : a Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Autobiography by Art Spiegelman

Blurb

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

First Published

1980

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Ksenia

Ksenia

Dieses Werk ist eine kreative Art der Traumaverarbeitung, hervorragend geschildert! eine echte Geschichte, die alle Merkmale einer erzählten Realität(Fiktion) beinhaltet.

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mandavi

Mandavi

Ein großartiges und durchaus verstörendes Buch. Es hat nichts Belehrendes und keinen eigentlichen Helden ohne Fehler. Wladek ist mir nicht einmal sympatisch und vielleicht ist es genau dieser Umstand, der diese wahre Geschichte so unglaublich realistisch macht.

0 Responses posted in September
PrincessHazMat

Princesshazmat

Wonderfully conceived and executed

0 Responses posted in May
gi1

Gi1

The best book I've ever read

0 Responses posted in January
breebit

Breebit

The first comic book to ever win a Pullitzer, and it sure is deserved. Powerful history with powerful illustrations

0 Responses posted in January
Moohcostaf

Moohcostaf

Smart and dynamic way to put the ww2

0 Responses posted in January
lagartijilla83

Lagartijilla83

http://lagartijilla83.tumblr.com/post/107900249817/maus-art-spiegelman

0 Responses posted in January
juhnke

Juhnke

Der Holocaust als Comic novel? Ja, und wie! Selten wurde einem das Leid der verfolgten Juden und ihrer Nachkommen so intensiv - und so humorvoll! - geschildert wie von Art Spiegelman.

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Randallphobia

Randallphobia

Intense. I will require my daughter to read this no later than middle school.

0 Responses posted in November
Randallphobia

Randallphobia

An intense retelling of the Holocaust. A must read.

0 Responses posted in November
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