The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Book Review: A very creative look at the Holocaust
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an original look at the Holocaust, by making animals represent the different cultures during World War 2. The Jewish people are mice, the Germans are cats, the Polish are pigs and Americans are dogs.By the illustrations, this also gives you a more realistic look into the death camps. It makes you want to learn more about the Holocaust and World War 2.Book Review: The best book which I read
Summary: 5 Stars
Vladek Spiegelman (the starring actor) wan't to be popular person. He tell his story throught son Art which write to the books MAUS I. and II.Book Review: I actually WANTED to finish this book..it's intersting
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many other teenagers, I think reading is really boring. When they told me to read Maus and Maus II, I was like man this is gonna be boring. When I first got it, I was suprised that it was a comic book. i was like finally something fun to do. The book was fun to read yet it explained experiences in the holocaust. I read that book like three times in one day, not because I had to, but because I wanted to. i encourage u to read it!!!!!Book Review: a better book without the holocaust.
Summary: 4 Stars
this is a good book, regardless of the fact that Art Spiegelman is a jerk. The actual story of Maus is quite unoriginal, and tells us things about the Holocaust we hear in school and everywhere else the Holocaust is mentioned, but what puts it above other works is the fact that it's a comic book with mice and cats. The best parts of Maus are the parts where he's not telling the story of the Holocaust...where he tells the story of his impossible relationship with his father (who successfully tries to bring back half-eaten groceries) and also in Part II where he discusses the success of Part I and how it drives him insane. I will always remember the picture of him wearing a mouse mask, sitting at a drawing table on top of a heap of dead Jews (Mice).Book Review: A Modern Allegory
Summary: 5 Stars
A veteran of the underground comic scene in the 1970s and a more recently a cover artist for the New Yorker, in the late 80s, Art Spiegelman undertook a project of interviewing his father Vladek, a Polish Jew who survived the holocaust in Auschwitz. He turned the narrative into an allegorical, graphical representation of the ordeal, in which Europe is a menagerie of humans behaving at our raw, animalistic worst, and perhaps best as well. Umberto Eco claimed that "Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to sleep." This was certainly true for me when I read it. Perhaps the only 'comic book' (as inappropriate as that term may be here) to win a Pulitzer Prize, Maus is gripping and compelling. Some have criticized it for relating simply a story which was no more remarkable than millions of others. Can anything different be said, however, of Night, or The Diary of Anne Frank? Does that make it any less important that the story be told? And yet, in Spiegelman's cat and mouse play, where moral virtues, failings, and decrepitude are writ large, Maus is also exceptional because of the strength of its allegory, which is almost Spenserian in its strength.