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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

by: Art Spiegelman

: Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780394747231
ISBN: 0394747232
Label: Pantheon
Manufacturer: Pantheon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: August 12, 1986
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date: August 12, 1986
Sales Rank: 397
Studio: Pantheon



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Product Description:
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

Amazon.com Review:
Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.

Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.

This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Calling it a "Survivor's Tale" is an understatement!
When I was growing up in the 1980's, I found that Holocaust survivors were either glad to be alive ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A unique look at a horrible time...
Maus: A Survivor's Tale is author/illustrator Art Spiegelman's attempt to tell the story of his family ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Maus
Maus was a very engaging book. From the beginning I was pulled into the story. Maus is written in a very ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Masterpiece
i was one of the few among my peers who had never read one of the Maus books. When i finally got around to ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Interesting
I must say that I find this work hard to properly describe in terms of how I feel about it. I think that it ... Read More

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