This is an amazing book. I read it 20 years ago and never forgot it. I will cherish this story and the grandson that was so creative in telling it by graphic cartography.
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Amazing. Through a graphic novel, Art Spiegelman has shared the story of his parents’ Holocaust survival. Spiegelman's father, Vladek, a Polish Jew who survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany during World War II tells his story to his son. But Maus I and II are primarily works on the father – son relationship. Artie is in pain and he may have sought his father’s story to give some context or explanation to that pain. Maus I recalls the events for Vladek and Anja in Poland leading up to the invasion and show how life was good and love was common. Maus I ends with the gates of Auschwitz. It details the love story of Vladek and his wife, Anja, a love of great depth and strength. Before the camps they were never apart during their married life and surprisingly they both survive. Once reunited, until her death they never part. The story is real and personal. It gives the Holocaust experience a reality that is hard to achieve and anchors it in your heart and mind. Maus II tells of the life events of surviving in the camps. It is a first hand account and throughout each novel Spiegelman frames the story in the present and in the past. Artie’s relationship with both parents is complex. He and his father did not get along …you see the father years after his ordeal in the camps and you see the person he has become which is not a totally positive package. Artie is also guilt ridden and suffering from anxieties regarding the brother he never knew, the realizations of how suffering was endured by his parents, the suicide of his mother and the success of this work which he finds uncomfortable at times. Maus I won the Pulitzer Prize. The graphic novel format was new for me but it worked. In both books, Spiegelman draws the characters as animals-- Jews are mice, Poles pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs, and French frogs. The text is written with the accent and words of his father actually telling the story that brings yet another dimension to the work. Only Schindler’s List, which also visually tells the story of survival, or The Diary of Anne Frank may compare to this work. HIGHLY recommended reading.Read full review
This book is a masterpiece and I think it's very important. This one is in great condition, no pages missing, the box is the tiniest bit warn on the corner but that's it. Awesome quality.
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These two books are wonderfully descriptive. I loved them as a young adult, I read them again when I was older and still enjoyed them. I got them for my son so that he could experience them as well.
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Had to see what all the hubbub was about.. Excellent graphic novel! Bought multiple to make sure I had enough for ALL of my grandchildren. Banning these books is an absolutely ridiculous idea.
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