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Maus II: a Survivor's Tale Vol. II : And Here My Troubles Began Paperback - 1992
by Art Spiegelman
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- Paperback
Now in paperback, "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal). "The power of Spiegelman's story lies in the fine detail of the story and the fact that it is related in comic-strip form".--San Francisco Examiner. New York Times 1991 "Editor's Choice".
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- Title Maus II: a Survivor's Tale Vol. II : And Here My Troubles Began
- Author Art Spiegelman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, NEW YORK
- Date 1992
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0679729771I4N10
- ISBN 9780679729778 / 0679729771
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.42 x 0.41 in (23.16 x 16.31 x 1.04 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 9152739
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history.
Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume of Art Spiegelman's *Maus* introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, 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 familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.
As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, 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. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. 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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MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2001, Page 979
- Publishers Weekly, 09/07/1992, Page 0