Three letters: W-O-W. I was truly amazed by this book and fully understand the Pulitzer the author received for it.The format is brilliant: the book you're holding and reading is actually being developed and written in front of your eyes. The constant switch between present day and war memories forc...
I checked out of the library The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman a while ago. It's a powerful graphic novel about the Holocaust, with mice representing the Jews and cats representing the Germans.This graphic novel is divided into two parts: My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles Began. Th...
Maus tells the story of Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living in New York. His son Art (also the author), interviews his father about his time spent dodging capture as well as his imprisonment at Auschwitz. Vladek recounts those who helped him, who betrayed him and the Nazis who murdered his friends...
My husband recommended this to me after seeing it on a list of the greatest graphic novels. I shrugged and said that I would add it to my long to-read list. Eventually I got a copy from the library, and sat down to read it. Wow, that is all I can really say. Art Spiegelman made a comic of his father...
Well I guess you can say that my first ever Comic Book was a success. The symbolism in this book was incredible and the story itself was amazing. I loved how the author actually put himself into the story so it wasn't just his father's story but his own as well. I just really enjoy survival stories ...
Maus (a Holocaust memoir comic) is such a brilliant book, but it's incredibly draining to read. I had to take breaks just to get away from the bleakness of it.It really is a perfect use of the comic medium, though. The Jews are depicted as (humanoid) mice, the Germans as cats. Without the cartoonish...
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