Maus I : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394541556 (0394541553)
Publish date: November 1st 1991
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
War,
World War II,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Holocaust
Series: Maus (#1)
Because of the disturbing subject matter I may not have read Maus if it wasn’t for my RL book club. I’d never read a graphic novel before but loved how artwork and narrative were teamed together. The book followed Artie, a man who decided to write and draw a graphic novel based on his father’ expe...
Determined that his father's experiences during the Holocaust not be forgotten, comic artist Art Spiegelman, recorded his dad's history. Maus I tells the story of his father's early adulthood in Poland, as a successful textile factory owner, until he was transported to Auschwitz. Choosing to write t...
Ok, first of all, the "About" section pretty much lays out exactly what the book is about. I'm not going to summarize in my own words what it is. I will however tell you that when this book first came out a lot of people had a hard time with how the book should be classified. There was talk about wh...
This graphic novel is rife with symbolism and tells the true story of Spiegelman's family in graphic novel format, but it holds nothing back. I use this in class during our Holocaust study with my students who prefer graphic novels over traditional books.
Honestly, At first I had a hard time with this true account being told as though they were mice. But once I could see who was represented by each animal ( mice, cats, pigs) things went smoothly for me. There were several things I didn't know that this book brought up. Like if you were missing so man...
2 years ago
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