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On The Occasion Of The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Of Its First Publication, 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).

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus Tells 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.

Art Spiegelman (Born Itzhak Avraham Ben Zeev) Is New-york-based Comics Artist, Editor, And Advocate For The Medium Of Comics, Best Known For His Pulitzer Prize-winning Comic Memoir, Maus.
The Young Adolf Hitler Applied Twice For Admission To The Academy Of Fine Arts In Vienna, And Each Time Was Rejected. One May Dream, Though: Had He Been Successful, He Might Have Had A Different Fate, And, As A Result, Europe’s History Might Have Taken Some Other Shape… Sixty Years Later, On Another Continent, The Young Art Spiegelman Applied To The High School Of Art And Design In Manhattan And Passed The Exam. His Parents, Vladek And Anja Spiegelman, Were Two Jews From Poland Who Survived Through The Nazi Ghetto Of Sosnowiec And The Extermination Camp Of Auschwitz-birkenau. Maus, A Massive Graphic Novel, Thirteen Years In The Making, Depicts The Complicated Relationship Between Art And His Father, The Very Process Of Creating Maus, And, In An Interlocked Way, Vladek’s Experience, Living In Poland During The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.

In Those Days, Hollywood Was Producing Some Of Its Most Celebrated Films, And Mickey Mouse Was Quickly Becoming The Cutest Little Mascot On The Silver Screen. At That Very Same Moment, The Allied Troops Carried Movie Cameras Into The Concentration Camps. The Films That Remain From That Time —the Ones Shown During The Nuremberg Trial — Are Tough To Watch, Haunting, Almost Impossible To Put Into Words. Art Spiegelman Has Managed To Blend Both Pictures (Disney And The Red Army File Footage) Poetically, Through Flat, Condensed And Straightforward Drawings. His Old Father, A Bit Soft In The Head And Speaking In A Funny Broken English, Provides A Deeply Personal, Honest, At Times Slightly Kafkaesque Or Chaplinesque Account Of These Dreadful Years, Of That Constant Fear And Deprivation, Such That We Could Make Some Sense Of This Inhuman, World-changing Experience.

There’s A Quote By Samuel Beckett Somewhere In This Book: “every Word Is Like An Unnecessary Stain On Silence And Nothingness”. This Visual Masterpiece Is A Refutation Of This Sentence. And It Has Left Me Both Moved And Dumbfounded.

Edit: Watched Roman Polanski’s Film The Pianist, Based On Wladyslaw Szpilman’s Harrowing Experience, During The War, In The Warsaw Ghetto. Both Maus And Polanski’s Movie Share This Sense Of Gradually Rising Horror And Convey The Same Utter Stupefaction.

This Is The “complete” Edition Of “maus: A Survivor’s Tale” Collecting Both Parts: “my Father Bleeds History” And “and Here My Troubles Began”.

Of Maus And Men

But These Damn Bugs Are Eating Me Alive!

While It Took Long Time Of Finally Reading Maus,…

…i Knew That It Was A Graphic Novel Referring About The Jew Holocaust, But Using Mice (Jews) And Cats (Nazis) As The Characters,…

…and Even While I Was Sure That It Will Be A Crude Telling, I Didn’t Expect That The Only Difference Between “reality” And This Graphic Novel Would Be The Choice Of Using “animals” As The Characters In The Story.

I Mean, While I Agree That Jew Holocaust Isn’t A Humorous Matter, I Supposed That It Would Be Some “imaginative” Use Of Places, Tools, Terms, Etc… Taking In Account That The Story Was Full Of Mice, Cats And Even Pigs (With Some Frog Or Dog, Here And There).

Actually, I Don’t Know Why Using “animals” As Characters If Everything Else In The Story Will Be Keep As It Happened. Even There Are Some Odd Moments Of A “female Mouse Person” Scared Due The Presence Of Regular Rats.

Again, The Jew Holocaust Is Not A Matter To Take In Comical Way, But Then, I Think That The Graphic Novel Could Plainly Use Human Beings (Not Necessarily Too Realistic, Some Cartoon Style Could Work) And The Graphic Novel Will Be The Same As Good, The Same As Relevant.

You Know, As In The Movie Life Is Beautiful Where The Horrors Of The Holocaust Are There, But Still There Is Space For Some Humorous Moments, That They Help As Tension Relief Without Meaning Any Disrespect To The Tragic Historic Event.

However, Definitely The Graphic Format Of This Story Makes Possible For Readers To Be Witness From The Begining Until The End (And Even Further) Of The Whole Tragic And Cruel Process Of What Jews Endured (And Not Many Were Able To Get Out Alive From It) During The World War Ii.

A Titanic Graphic Story Constructed During Years Of Artistic Effort To Show, With Detail And Authenticity, One Of The Darkest Episodes Of Human History.

Let Maus Who Is Without Sin…

Friends? Your Friends?… If You Lock Them Together In A Room With No Food For A Week… Then You Could See What It Is, Friends!

The Success Of Maus Obviously Can Tied To The Reason Of Being A Jew Holocaust’s Story, And Almost Any Suc Story Receive A Wide Positive Acceptance, But I Think That What Makes Different Maus From Many Of Similar Stories Is Its Bold Honesty.

Here, You Won’t Have A Partial View Of The Tragic Event Or Spotless Characters.

Obviously Nazis And Polish Collaborators/sympathizers Are Shown Doing Their Evil Stuff, But Also You Will Watch How Jews Behaved With Their Own, Robbing Food From Their Fellow People, Not Doing Any Favor Unless Get Paid With Something (Gold, Food, Cigarrettes, Etc…), True, It Was An Extreme Situation, But Usually Movies And Other Books Don’t Hesitate To Show Nazi’s Inhuman Actions, But You Have To Realize That Those Were Prisons, And Life In Prisons Is Tough And People Will Lose Any Humanity From Them In The Urge To Survive.

Also, Art Spiegelman, The Author, Was Bold Showing How Hard Was To Live With His Father, Vladek Spielgelman (The Main Character In The Holocaust Parts), Vladek Wasn’t A Saint (And After All, How Many Of Us Really Is?) With Not Only Crazy Habits But Even Racist Thinking Against Afro-american People. Art Spiegelman Is A Character In The Story Too, And While He Is A Whole Better As Person Than His Father, He Doesn’t Portrait Himself As A Saint And You Can Appreciate How Even At Some Moments, He Does Some Kinda Unfair Actions, Since After All, He Is Human Too. His Family Is As Disfunctional As Others, Being Holocaust’s Survivors Didn’t Turn It Magically Into “norman Rockwell Paintings”.

Anybody Can Create Perfect Heroes, Only True Writers Are Able To Show The Dark Moments Of His/her Own Family, In The Middle Of The Storytelling Of A Book.

In This Way, With Boldness And Courage, Maus Exposes Us With A Harsh Truth: Survivors From A War Aren’t Necessarily Good People, Saved By Their Faith Or Spared Due The Purity Of Their Souls. No. Survivors From A War (In Most Cases) Is Just Because Plain Luck. Even Some Survivors Got Such Bad Luck Of Dying After The War Ended And By Non-military Personnel.

War Is A Crazy Thing (Any War) And If You Try To Get Some Logic Out Of It,…