Title:
Maus I & II : a survivor's tale
Author:
Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, [1997]
Physical Description:
295 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780679406419
9780141014081
Abstract:
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. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. 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 is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. 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. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us
General Note:
"Chapters one through six of Maus, Volume I and chapters one through four of Maus, Volume II first appeared, in a somewhat different form, in Raw magazine between 1980 and 1991. 'Prisoner of the Hell Planet' originally appeared in Short Order Comix #1, 1973"--Title page verso
Contents:
Part 1. My father bleeds history. The sheik -- The honeymoon -- Prisoner of war -- The noose tightens -- Mouse holes -- Mouse trap -- Part 2. And here my troubles began. Mauschwitz -- Auschwitz (time flies) -- ... and here my troubles began ... -- Saved -- Second honeymoon.
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Language:
English
