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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman

The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale Cover

Awards

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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Powells.com Staff Pick

Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's refusal to lionize the victims (Spiegelman's parents are presented as complex individuals — warts and all — instead of saintly martyrs) and his determination to keep his metaphor (Jews as mice, Germans as cats) from slipping into allegory.

Safe Area Gorazde suggests we didn't learn much from the Holocaust except how to avert our gaze when genocide is being enacted practically under our noses. Sacco's account of the war in Sarajevo is human and heartbreaking. His vividly rendered images put us right there in Gorazde, with an immediacy neither film nor prose can replicate. Nothing can truly atone for the world's complacency in the midst of the Sarajevo massacre, but Sacco's remarkable graphic novel goes a long way toward helping us understand the brutalities that our newspapers glossed over. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

Review:

"The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust." Wall Street Journal

Review:

"The power of Spiegelman's story lies in the fine detail of the story and the fact that it is related in comic-strip form." San Francisco Examiner

Review:

"[I]t's not just [Spiegelman's] unblinking realism that makes Maus so disconcerting: it's the choice of so stylized a medium....The very artificiality of its surface makes it possible to imagine the reality beneath." David Gates, Newsweek

Review:

"All too infrequently, a book comes along that's as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman's Maus is just such book." Esquire

Review:

"Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to sleep. When two of the mice speak of love, you are moved, when they suffer, you weep. Slowly through this little tale comprised of suffering, humor and life's daily trials, you are captivated by the language of an old Eastern European family, and drawn into the gentle and mesmerizing rhythm, and when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have left that magical world." Umberto Eco

Synopsis:

A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller.

Synopsis:

Volumes I & II of this 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrated narrative of Holocaust survival.

Synopsis:

At last Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust (Wall Street Journal) and the first masterpiece in comic book history (The New Yorker). It now appears as it was originally envisioned by the author: The Complete Maus.

It is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler' s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father' s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek' s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author' s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century' s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

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About the Author

Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. His work has been published in the New York Times, Playboy, the Village Voice, and many other periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries here and abroad. Honors he has received for Maus include the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mr. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Francoise Mouly, and their daughter, Nadja.
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Table of Contents

My father bleeds history — And here my troubles began.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679406419
Subtitle:
A Survivor's Tale
Author:
Spiegelman, Art
Author:
Spiegelman, Art
Editor:
Jordon, Fred
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Form - Cartoons & Comics
Subject:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject:
Holocaust
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
Subject:
Historical - Holocaust
Subject:
Holocaust survivors
Subject:
Graphic Novels
Subject:
Children of Holocaust survivors
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish
Subject:
Children of Holocaust survivors -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Subject:
Graphic Novels - General
Subject:
General
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
05-10082
Publication Date:
November 1996
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
296
Dimensions:
9.54x6.66x.98 in. 1.87 lbs.
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