Maus
I – My Father Bleeds History
II – And Here My Trouble Begin
by Art Spiegelman
(5/5)
Fiction, Graphic Novel
Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize
First Published in 1980-1991 in RAW magazinePublisher: Pantheon Books Set: Nazi Poland and modern day New York, USA
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Book Synopsis:
“The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.” – Adolf Hitler
Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father’s terrifying story, and history itself. It’s form, the cartoon (Nazi’s are cats, the Jews are mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of our any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. It is, as the New York Times Book Review has commented, “a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness…an unfolding literary event.”
