One of my favourite parts of Maus was the relationship between Art and Vladek. are meant to self-destruct in my book - and I think they do self-destruct." In a 1991 interview, Spiegelman noted that "these metaphors. "In making people of a single nationality look "all alike", Spiegelman hoped to show the absurdity of dividing people by these lines. Jewish people are drawn as mice, German people are drawn as cats, Polish people are drawn as pigs and people from the U.S are drawn as dogs. It is drawn masterfully in beautiful black and white. The Complete Maus are two graphic novels combined to form the story of Vladek Spiegelman's life during World War 2. The love shown between Vladek and Anja mesmerized me and broke my heart seeing them go through so much cruelty and suffering. This was a story about survival and deep love. His story, as told to his son Art Spiegelman, was one of the most powerful stories I've ever experienced. I loved my Grandfather and I loved Vladek. He reminded me of my Grandfather, a little. This was real and I can't even explain how this affected me because it was the most emotional thing I've ever read. This was an experience, not just a "read". This burrowed it's way deep into my heart. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. 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. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. 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 approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. 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. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).
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