{"id":2321,"date":"2017-12-11T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:34:54","slug":"book-review-the-complete-maus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/book-review-the-complete-maus\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review – The Complete Maus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler\u2019s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father\u2019s 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 \u2018drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust\u2019 (The New York Times).Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek\u2019s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.This combined, definitive edition includes Maus I: A Survivor\u2019s Tale and Maus II.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The first masterpiece in comic book history\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

-The New Yorker
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My first graphic novel and what a wonderful book to read!<\/p>\n

Spiegelman<\/a> does a great job of recounting his fathers story of the holocaust. The broken English of Vladek and the interspersion of his miserly acts in between the telling of the horrors of holocaust sort of balances the narrative and makes you want to read this book till the end. But for it, I am sure, people would not have read the book in it\u2019s entirety.<\/p>\n

Through the book, I kept wondering if the resourcefulness of Vladek may have helped him survive the camps. But at the same time Anja and Mala too survived the Auschwitz and somewhere you couldn\u2019t help but wonder the truth of \u2013 \u201c\u2026But it wasn\u2019t the best<\/em> people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!\u201d<\/p>\n

My Rating: 5\/5<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: The Complete Maus Author: Art Spiegelman Genre: Children of Holocaust survivors Release Date: 2003 Pages: 296 Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler\u2019s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father\u2019s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"-1","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-have-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/71nXxfnNEcL._AC_UY327_FMwebp_QL65_1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}