![]() ![]() ![]() At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale-and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. 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. 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. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began Art Spiegelman Pantheon Books, 1991 - Adventure and adventurers - 135 pages 93 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for. This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. ![]() Volumes I and II of the book Maus: A Survivors Tale appeared in 1986. 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. Art Spiegelman first published parts of MAUS in the magazine Raw between 1980-1991. The first ever graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a frank and visceral look at the Holocaust through his father’s eyes. "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. ![]()
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