5/24/2023 0 Comments Maus I by Art Spiegelman![]() It’s also about what people choose to remember and what they try to forget. The book is about several important things: death, hatred, and the Holocaust the immigrant experience in America elderly couples with marriage troubles the relationship between immigrant parents and their completely Americanized adult children. The modern-day relationship between Spiegelman and his father frames the narrative. It’s the true story of Spiegelman’s parents – Polish Jews, survivors of the Holocaust – told in cartoon form, with the Jews portrayed as mice, the Nazis as cats. ![]() On first hearing, in fact, the concept seems impossible to pull off without giving serious offense. Maus may be the most unlikely artistic triumph of the 20th century. Spiegelman’s fusion of illustration, biography, history, and personal tragedy continues to confound expectations. More than thirty years after its initial appearance, Maus hasn’t lost an ounce of its narrative power. ![]() ![]() It appeared in book form in 1986, when volume I, “My Father Bleeds History,” was published by Pantheon Books. Art Spiegelman’s Maus was originally published in serial form beginning in 1980, in the comic anthology Raw. ![]()
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