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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Easily as good as the crits Over the years I have read many books centred or reflecting upon holocaust atrocities and I had thought the power to shock would have dimmed. Maus took me by surprise with the depth of sickening revulsion I felt at the horrors which beset Spiegelman's family of Polish Jews. I attribute that to the medium, with the graphic portrayal of events leading to a much quicker and more immediate sense of the unimaginably awful conditions. As with other such memoirs, there is, however, a strain of hope and plenty... more info
More weight given to the medium of 'graphic novel'.... It's quite a lengthy graphic novel, and is an account of the Holocaust, with mice representing Jews, Cats as the Nazis, Americans as dogs and Pigs as the Polish. This is a brilliant conceit, and the writer makes full and effective use of it.
This is harrowing and incredible, but very real and present and with very human, flawed characters that hit home beyond what a film or a book can do for a wide range of audience types. The illustrations aid the narrative, placing soft, engaging images and dark... more info
The tragic tale of Vladek Spiegelman, Holocaust Survivor What got Art Spiegelman's "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" noticed was the simple and rather obvious conceit of telling a story about the Holocaust in which the Jews are portrayed as mice and the Nazis as cats. But the reason Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize is because ultimately the story being told is more important than the metaphor employed by the cartoonist.
Vladek Spiegelman was a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Holocaust and "Maus" is about the attempt of his son, a cartoonist, to come to terms with not... more info
Deeply moving yet charming This is a magnificent piece of writing - not only does it reach to the heart of the Holocaust in an unembellished and truly personal way, but it brings a charming and unassuming humour with it that will have any reader deeply touched.
The illustrations and use of the animal personifications (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice) is delightfully done and Spiegelman uses his own tragedy to communicate the horror of the Holocaust without sensationalising, giving a vivid and true to life story of the atrocity... more info
