This book is a comic book, and it won the Pulitzer Prize. "Why? How?" It won for a reason: it is a fresh account of the much discussed World War II Holocaust, told from a single (real) person's point of view. The main character (Art Spiegelman's father) is Jewish, and so is represented by a mouse. Nazis are cats. The mouse (barely) survives a sentence in a concentration camp. The fact that the book is in comic format with personified animals allows you to absorb the story and it's gruesome details quickly and painlessly until you understand the magnitude and reality of it. Then you are overwhelmed, and the book explodes into powerful work of human experience.
YA Told with chilling realism in an unusual comic-book format, this is more than a tale of surviving the Holocaust. Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on the survivors' later years and upon the lives of the following generation. Each scene opens at the elder Spiegelman's home in Rego Park, N.Y. Art, who was born after the war, is visiting his father, Vladek, to record his experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland. The Nazis, portrayed as cats, gradually introduce increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews, drawn as mice, are systematically hunted and herded toward the Final Solution. Vladek saves himself and his wife by a combination of luck and wits, all the time enduring the torment of hunted outcast. The other theme of this book is Art's troubled adjustment to life as he, too, bears the burden of his parents' experiences. This is a complex book. It relates events which young adults, as the future architects of society, must confront, and their interest is sure to be caught by the skillful graphics and suspenseful unfolding of the story.
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Spiegelman interviews his father as he is writing this book. It is not only a story about his father's experiences as a Jewish Pole during the Second World War, but also how it is still affecting his father's values and behavior. You will be shocked by the straightforward and sometimes gory details he describes from memory. A very inspiring, thought-provoking story of hope and survival.
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History Details
- Author: Art Spiegelman ( Click for download pdf :
) - Series: My Father Bleed's History (Book 1)
- ISBN-10: 0394747232
- ISBN-13: 978-0394747231
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.4 x 9.1 inches
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Pantheon; 1st edition (August 12, 1986)
- Language: English
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