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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (original 1986; edition 1986)

by Art Spiegelman

Series: Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1), Maus (1)

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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.
Member:kaipakartik
Title:Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Authors:Art Spiegelman
Info:Pantheon (1986), Edition: Later edition, Paperback, 160 pages
Collections:Your library, Comics
Rating:*****
Tags:Spiegelman, Holocaust, Pulitzer, memoir, comics, germany, 3rd year, iit

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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman (1986)

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This is a great look into Nazi-occupied Poland in the '30s and '40s. It's also a touching story of an adult son trying to get closer to his father.

I'll be honest, I picked this up because it was on the "banned books" table. I don't think we should limit what people can write or read. I struggle to see what should be banned about this book. It's a historically accurate depiction of an individual's life going through a horrible time in recent history. ( )
  teejayhanton | Mar 22, 2024 |
MAUS I surprised me. Even though I thought I knew pieces and portions about the Holocaust quite well, this is different. MAUS I is an auto- and biography that covered the past of his parents and the present of their relationship. The author and illustrator, Art Spiegelman, drew himself, his wife, Françoise Mouly, his dad Vladek, and his dad’s second wife, Mala, into the book. The chaotic interviews and hostility-filled interactions are included. Art’s mom, Anya, committed suicide when he was 20, leaving behind the grief-stricken Vladek. The generational trauma affected not just his parents but also placed demands and expectations on Art. Especially after Anya’s death, father and son became estranged, miraculously coming together for these interviews.

Book I also surprised me that Vladek (and Anya) Spiegelman went multiple rounds from being drafted in Poland, caught and became prisoner of war, released, reunited with Anya and extended family, hiding, escaping, and more, before finally being caught and sent to Auschwitz. Book I doesn’t even include the Auschwitz portion yet, and it was incredibly powerful. I was floored by all their efforts to evade capture.

MAUS is the first and, thus far, only graphic novel to have won the Pulitzer Prize.

MAUS became famous in recent years as a banned book. Naturally, I read MAUS because of that. Thank you to the idiots who banned it and inspired me to read an excellent book!

A note to parents: Even though Art Spiegelman used mice to depict Jews, cats to depict Germans, and pigs to depict Poles, the hostility, fear, and violence are obvious. Art also included the pages of his short graphic strip that addressed his mother’s suicide, including himself in a prisoner’s striped outfit, since he had left the state mental hospital just months before and was living at home. This portion is blunt and graphic with his mother found naked in the bathroom in a pool of blood. This portion is in human figures. ( )
1 vote varwenea | Mar 3, 2024 |
I'd heard of Maus before, of course -- it's one of the most famous non-fiction graphic novels -- but I hadn't gotten around to reading it until I saw it in a "banned books" display at my local bookstore and picked up a copy.

It's interesting that the "framing device" of Vladek telling Art the story is very present -- the story is always told via his narration, and there are lots of scenes in the present day where we see his strained relationships with his remaining family.

The art choice (Jews are drawn as mice, Nazis as cats, Poles and Germans as pigs) sounds like it should be weird, but it's effective. I particularly like how when Vladek is trying to pass as a non-Jewish person, he's drawn wearing a pig mask. ( )
  lavaturtle | Jan 7, 2024 |
Being the rebel that I am, I had to read this because it was put on the banned list. I cannot fathom how anyone would have a problem with a child reading this unless they do not want them to know about history. ( )
  KyleneJones | Jan 3, 2024 |
Heartbreaking , but couldn’t put it down. ( )
  rpnrch | Oct 23, 2023 |
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Making a Holocaust comic book with Jews as mice and Germans as cats would probably strike most people as flippant, if not appalling. ''Maus: A Survivor's Tale'' is the opposite of flippant and appalling. To express yourself as an artist, you must find a form that leaves you in control but doesn't leave you by yourself. That's how ''Maus'' looks to me - a way Mr. Spiegelman found of making art.
 

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Spiegelman, Artprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Amorim, FernandoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Carano, RanieriTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mouly, FrancoiseEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human." Adolf Hitler
Dedication
For Anja
Purdue Jewish Studies Program
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It was summer, I remember I was ten or eleven...
Quotations
No, darling!
To die it’s easy...
but you have to struggle for life!
Until the last moment we must struggle together!
I need you!
And you’ll see that together we’ll survive.
This always I told to her.
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This is the single volume edition of "Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History". It does NOT contain the second volume of the story, Maus II.

DO NOT COMBINE with the omnibus edition containing both Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History and Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began!!!
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