Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
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"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.
This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Mausties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale-and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors." --Front flap
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Maus is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 1980 with contributions by Art Spiegelman.
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Better than the first volume, but very difficult to quantify a book like this. So worth reading.
the holocaust is being forgotten, erased, wiped from schools circulars lately and i think it needs to taught more now than ever. The holocaust is treated more like fiction than real life this past decade. People need to know what happened and to stop treating it as something so “simple” as just jewish people dying. People need to know the torture millions went through. Men, women, CHILDREN. Jewish people (and other races) went through hell. Pure torture. Jewish people are being erased as a race lately. People are denying that being jewish is a race. Did we not learn??
i hate this world ugh
The Maus books really blew me away. Authentic, touching, and absorbing from beginning to end.
Two streams alternate back-and-forth throughout: Art's discussions in NYC with his increasingly demanding, quirky, aging father who's problems Art struggles to accept, and tales from his father's time enduring Nazi occupation in Poland and Germany.
Both streams are completely engrossing. The pacing and interplay are wonderful. Art and his father were both relatable, with their flaws and challenges laid remarkably bare and honestly explored.
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