The Complete MAUS

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a profound masterpiece that redefines the graphic novel. By depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, it renders the visceral horror of the Holocaust accessible yet devastating. This dual narrative expertly weaves a survivor’s harrowing testimony with a raw, complex father-son relationship. It’s an essential, heart-wrenching meditation on memory, trauma, and inherited guilt.

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‘Maus’ in a way reminded me of the Nadia Murad’s book “the Last Girl”.Both were survivor stories and both were war stories too. Both wars were based on Racism, isn’t most of them are based on that? I have been a big fan of comics while growing up (who isn’t?”) and I thought shifting to the non graphic medium was more mature.Well,I was wrong, obviously.The books of Alan Moore and Frank Miller have showed me that Comics were a spectacular medium when it wanted to be. The Japanese ‘Junji Ito’ was a revelation and now I am constantly digging Graphic novels. Maus is drawn in black and white and the tone fits the story so well. By making the protagonists and antagonists faceless (well, they have faces but he has ingenuously drawn Jews as mice and Germans as cat) he tells us that everything becomes non personal and generic during the time of war, especially the pain, but it is not so. Every guy is fighting his or her battle through the war and each guy’s suffering has its own shades of blue. Pain is looming as a pallid gloom all over them, omnipresent and stifling. It is like there is a thick towel draped over their faces. They have to breathe and see through it and the towel stinks after some time. Read Maus to understand how a war feels like,how hate feels like,how sectarianism feels like,how it feels like to fear for your life every second of the day. A great book in short.

Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. In the frame-tale timeline in the narrative present that begins in 1978 in New York City, Spiegelman talks with his father Vladek about his Holocaust experiences, gathering material for the Maus project he is preparing. In the narrative past, Spiegelman depicts these experiences, from the years leading up to World War II to his parents' liberation from the Nazi concentration camps. Much of the story revolves around Spiegelman's troubled relationship with his father, and the absence of his mother who committed suicide when he was 20. Her grief-stricken husband destroyed her written accounts of Auschwitz. The book uses a minimalist drawing style and displays innovation in its pacing, and structure, and page layouts. A three-page strip also called "Maus" that he made in 1972 gave Spiegelman an opportunity to interview his father about his life during World War II. The recorded interviews became the basis for the graphic novel, which Spiegelman began in 1978. He serialized Maus from 1980 until 1991 as an insert in Raw, an avant-garde comics and graphics magazine published by Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly, who also appears in Maus. A collected volume of the first six chapters that appeared in 1986 brought the book mainstream attention; a second volume collected the remaining chapters in 1991. Maus was one of the first graphic novels to receive significant academic attention in the English-speaking world. Art Spiegelman bought a spectacular change in the way how people look at comics. Amazon , great job.

I was like, let's see. And then I saw, I read, I imagined, I felt, and well, I could never have imagined to experience this lot about the holocaust through a comic art book. But, I did and here, it is- a well deserving Pulitzer Prize winner- it's a very interesting take to discover for the ones who haven't yet!!

In the fraught times, when the world is tilting more and more to the right, people should read this book and understand what fascism was and is.

Brought it from cocoblu came the very NXT day no damage in proper condition and it's authentic aswell, also a must read for everyone what an art.

I could write thousands of words expressing my feelings and they wouldn't be enough. This book took me on an emotional journey and made me feel things I thought I wasn't capable of feeling. I laughed, smiled, cried, bawled and at times, just sat in awe, holding the book in my hand. The horror of the Holocaust juxtaposed with a man's relationship with his father who survived it; this is a tale that will resonate for generations. It is the most human thing I have ever read and dare I say, one of the most honest accounts of one of the darkest periods in human history. Told through tiny squares on a page, Maus creeps into the recesses of your mind and your heart and when it is finally over, you find yourself more than what you were before. It has taken its place as one of my favourite and dearest stories ever. I hope everyone who reads, experiences this monumental piece of work at least once in his or her life. It is an epic story, told on such a small scale that one forgets that one watches history unfold before them in a manner that was hitherto unknown. Read this, please. Just read it and later on, find yourself changed.