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Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon, succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. It is, as the New York Times Book Review has commented, "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event."
Moving back and forth from Poland to Rego Park, New York, Maus tells two powerful stories: the first is Spiegelman's father's account of how he and his wife survived Hitler's Europe, a harrowing tale filled with countless brushes with death, improbable escapes, and the terror of confinement and betrayal. The second is the author's tortured relationship with his aging father as they try to lead a normal life of minor arguments and passing visits against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At all levels, this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that, too, of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
Part I of Maus takes Spiegelman's parents to the gates of Auschwitz and him to the edge of despair. Put aside all your preconceptions. These cats and mice are not Tom and Jerry, but something quite different. This is a new kind of literature.
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MA001MS | 741 SPI MA | Green School Library | Available |
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28782 | 741 SPI MAU | Green School Library | Available but not for loan - Missing |
Detail Information
Series Title |
Maus #1
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Call Number |
741 SPI MAU
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Publisher | Penguin Books : New York., 1986 |
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Paperback, 159 pages
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Language |
English
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ISBN/ISSN |
9780140104141
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Classification |
741
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Specific Detail Info |
Pulitzer Prize for Letters Award (1992), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alfred du meilleur album étranger (1988), Urhunden Prize for Foreign Album (1988), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (1986)
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