Art Spiegelman
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| Original Title: | Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began |
| ISBN: | 0679729771 (ISBN13: 9780679729778) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Maus #2 |
| Characters: | Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman |
| Setting: | Poland Auschwitz(Poland) Catskill Mountains, New York,1979(United States) …more New York State,1979(United States) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Material AND nominated for Special Award for Excellence in Presentation (1992), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1992), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Alph-art du meilleur album étranger (1993), Urhunden Prize for Foreign Album (1993), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Biography/Autobiography (1991) Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (1992) |
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Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.
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| Title | : | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus #2) |
| Author | : | Art Spiegelman |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | September 1992 by Pantheon Books (first published 1991) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. World War II. Holocaust |
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Ratings: 4.39 From 116810 Users | 2929 ReviewsComment On Based On Books Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus #2)
*Reread March 2015 for schoolI cannot get over how powerful these book are. I'll be doing a video review soon so stay tuned for that.There are so many layers to this story! Is it reality? It it only our perception of Arts reality? Is it biographical? Autobiographical? Fictional? Historical? Fact? A representation of fact? I dont know. I dont care. I love it anyway, no because, of its intangibility and abstract nature. It touches my heart and makes me feel an emotional attachment to the horrifying story and to the factual history behind it, regardless of its classification. There are many subtle clues towards Arts intentions
Fantastic conclusion. I think I enjoyed this one even more than the first. The two stories of Vladek in the past and Vladek in the present really explore interesting topics of generational gaps as well as national differences. Art's American sensibility versus his father's stinginess--a result of his wartime survival--is extremely understandable and well explored in this volume. It's a harrowing story but so uniquely told and such a wonderful insight into one man's Holocaust survival, I would
Yep. There's a reason this won a Pulitzer Prize.
I don't even know what to say. I just hope nothing like Holocaust ever happens again.
Since I'd read Maus I about a year ago and Nadja Spiegelman's enticing memoir in the summertime, I was beyond ecstatic to find this second volume on the shelves of my local library.And since it's been quite a while, I was grateful that this volume had a quick recap at the start of what occurred before:Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist born after WW II, is working on a book about what happened to his parents as Jews in wartime Poland. He has made a series of visits to his childhood home in Rego
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