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Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman

 

Description: ISBN 0679748407 / Author: Art Spiegelman / Genre: Biography / Maus is a graphic novel, telling the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish ... more
Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman ... survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to comes to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself.

Newest Review: ... the third level, Vladek Spiegelman tells his son about his family’s life in Poland before the rise of the Nazis, what ... more

 ... happened to his family during the Third Reich, his and his wife’s experiences in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and their final salvation, inserted photos of Art’s younger brother (he died during the war) and father show that this is a real biography; Vladek’s story forms the core of the book. The situation of the son interviewing the father serves as a frame, but it doesn’t appear only at the beginning and at the end, Vladek’s story is repeatedly interrupted; these interruptions serve several purposes, t...more

MALU
Premium Review Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman: Murdered Mice (1126 words)
by MALU - written on 31.03.06 (Very useful, 913 readings)
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A comic on the holocaust? The Jews depicted as mice and the most infamous concentration camp as Mauschwitz? I had read positive reviews on the book and had to find out how that worked, if it worked at all for me. Art Spiegelman hasn’t invented the genre but he’s certainly expanded it, he’s created a unique graphic book by the subject he’s chosen. The author (from the cover) ‘a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker, cofounder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics’ has made first and foremost a classical comic, i.e., ‘a story about anthropomorphically depicted animals, told sequentially in a series of square panels ...

jillmurphy
Crowned Review Then You Could See What It Is, Friends (1092 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 23.06.02 (Very useful, 665 readings)
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Conor got it down from the shelf. I hadn't read it in years. And I wasn't sure whether to be glad or not. Maus is a powerful book. It tells one of the saddest stories in a history of sad stories man has created. Maus is the story of the Holocaust. It's told in comic strip format and that, of course, is what had attracted Conor. I said it was a very sad book and was he sure he'd like to read it and he said he was sure. So together we read. Maus is written by Art Spiegelman, an American cartoonist. It tells the story of his father's experiences under the Nazi regime, how he and his family avoided the concentration camps for a ...

Kenl799
Express Review on Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman
by Kenl799 - written on 01.05.02
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