Complete Maus (Graphic Novel)

Really greatly illustrated book

Brought it from cocoblu came the very NXT day no damage in proper condition and it's authentic aswell, also a must read for everyone what an art.

Where do I begin with a masterpiece like this? An unflinching, honest look at one of the worst atrocities in human history. Told through the narrative framing of a son interviewing his father who lived through Auschwitz.The unfolding of the father's story is set against his present day personality, the friction between them, the empty presence of his mother and intergenerational trauma- really, nothing about this book is easy to read and I'm grateful it's entirely in greyscale. The anthromorphic characters add an extra layer to the story. The beginning of volume 2 has the author writing through his writer's block following the success of the first volume, which was one of highlights for me.Highly recommend this to everyone.

Maus 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. The work employs postmodern techniques and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.In the frame-tale timeline in the narrative present that begins in 1978 in New York City, Spiegelman talks with his father Vladek about his Holocaust experiences, gathering material for the Maus project he is preparing. In the narrative past, Spiegelman depicts these experiences, from the years leading up to World War II to his parents' liberation from the Nazi concentration camps. Much of the story revolves around Spiegelman's troubled relationship with his father, and the absence of his mother who committed suicide when he was 20. Her grief-stricken husband destroyed her written accounts of Auschwitz. The book uses a minimalist drawing style and displays innovation in its pacing, and structure, and page layouts.A three-page strip also called "Maus" that he made in 1972 gave Spiegelman an opportunity to interview his father about his life during World War II. The recorded interviews became the basis for the graphic novel, which Spiegelman began in 1978. He serialized Maus from 1980 until 1991 as an insert in Raw, an avant-garde comics and graphics magazine published by Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly, who also appears in Maus. A collected volume of the first six chapters that appeared in 1986 brought the book mainstream attention; a second volume collected the remaining chapters in 1991. Maus was one of the first graphic novels to receive significant academic attention in the English-speaking world. Art Spiegelman bought a spectacular change in the way how people look at comics. Amazon , great job.

Art Spiegelman's - MAUSRating - 4/5Some stories never lose the power to traumatise, no matter how many times they're told.And when devastation and massacre and torture are shown in sketches and stories simultaneously they induce a pain so subtle that eyes drizzle invisibly...The Pulitzer Prize winner - Maus, has all the ingredients that make it a must-read. The mental and psychological change in the protagonist has been structured like a word-of-God, and hence, answers questions that are not asked.The imperfect English used in the conversations between the holocaust survivor Spiegelman and his son - the author Spiegelman, sets a factual tone and transports the reader to the dark times with ease.....The only difference between other novels about the holocaust and Maus is that like "The Diary of Anne Frank" it is the real account of a man who survived the Nazis' murderous dictatorial regime. So, the air of reality sets it apart.

‘Maus’ in a way reminded me of the Nadia Murad’s book “the Last Girl”.Both were survivor stories and both were war stories too. Both wars were based on Racism, isn’t most of them are based on that?I have been a big fan of comics while growing up (who isn’t?”) and I thought shifting to the non graphic medium was more mature.Well,I was wrong, obviously.The books of Alan Moore and Frank Miller have showed me that Comics were a spectacular medium when it wanted to be. The Japanese ‘Junji Ito’ was a revelation and now I am constantly digging Graphic novels.Maus is drawn in black and white and the tone fits the story so well. By making the protagonists and antagonists faceless (well, they have faces but he has ingenuously drawn Jews as mice and Germans as cat) he tells us that everything becomes non personal and generic during the time of war, especially the pain, but it is not so. Every guy is fighting his or her battle through the war and each guy’s suffering has its own shades of blue.Pain is looming as a pallid gloom all over them, omnipresent and stifling. It is like there is a thick towel draped over their faces. They have to breathe and see through it and the towel stinks after some time.Read Maus to understand how a war feels like,how hate feels like,how sectarianism feels like,how it feels like to fear for your life every second of the day.A great book in short.