Maus, [a] often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor.

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is the illustrated true story of Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences during World War II, as told by his son, Artie. It consists of Book One: My Father Bleeds History, and Book Two: And Here My Troubles Began / From Mauschwitz to the Catskills and Beyond.

Artie Spiegelman, a young Jewish-American cartoonist, arrives for a visit at the home of his father, Vladek, after a long estrangement. Vladek is sick and unhappy, stuck in a bad marriage to a resentful woman named Mala, and still mourning the loss of …

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Jan 1, 1980 · 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.

3 days ago · Maus depicts the events of the Holocaust with shocking sincerity, so much so that it can difficult to rationalize why (and how) something like it could really happen. In this book, Peter Hayes goes over the messy details, explaining how it was a perfect storm of factors that led to one of the ultimate tragedies.

Maus tells two stories: how Art Spiegelman’s father Vladek survived World War II and the Holocaust, and how Artie Spiegelman turned that story into the graphic novel Maus. Read the full book summary, the full book analysis, and explanations of important quotes from Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.

3 days ago · Art Spiegelman has done more to make Americans think of comic art as actual art than any other creator. And he did it with cartoon mice. But the characters of “Maus,” Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel based on his Polish Jewish father Vladek’s Holocaust experience, will never be confused with a Disney mascot.

A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

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