Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
by Art Spiegelman
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages144 pages
ISBN
9780679729778
Published
1991
Description
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of Art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's introduced readers to vladek spiegleman, a jewish survivor Of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come ...Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of Art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's introduced readers to vladek spiegleman, a jewish survivor Of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and history itself. Its form, the cartoon (the nazis are cats, the jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.