Review Summaries

• Many readers praise its structural control and emotional force. The book leaves a heavy aftertaste, yet it is often admired for conveying family memory and historical cruelty with unusual visual power.

Reviews

• Deepen understanding of Holocoust through Graphic Novel

  The author use animals to distinguish nationalities. This technique clearly higilights cruel racism.

• A must read

  An elegant way to tell a story far from elegant. I hope that in the 21 century we have a lot to learn from our past.

• amazing

  I couldn't stop reading. the frame by frame portraiture of Art Spiegelman's father, his family's history; and their story as a tiny drop in the Holocaust unimaginable period. Spiegelman is an active character throughout the book and as an individual, "second generation"', american, Jewish.. all these combined, he gives an authentic complex perspective. The powerful visuals makes it a fascinating experience.

• 生き延びる知恵

  コロナ騒動の中、入手に時間がかかりましたが、期待通り強烈な本でした。

• 英語は難しいですね

  いい物語

• ピュリツァー賞受賞作品

  父親のアウシュビッツ体験を描いた漫画「Maus」の第１部「MY FATHER BLEEDS HISTORY」と第２部「AND HERE MY TROUBLES BEGAN」を収録した完全版。作者はこの作品でピュリツアー賞を受賞した。 登場人物は全て動物の姿をしており、この狙いなどは柴田元幸・編「NINE INTERVIEWS」中の柴田とスピーゲルマンとの対談の中でも語られている。 第２次大戦下の父親の体験を描く一方で、執筆中の作者と父親とのいさかいなどについても描かれており、それによって、アウシュビッツを過去の悲惨な話としてただ聞く（読む）のではなく、自分に起こり得る問題として考えさせられた。 絵も読みやすく、雰囲気は全く異なるのだが、手塚治虫を思い出した。

• 普通の暮らしと独裁者

  アウシュビッツから生還しNYに渡った父母の物語を、作者は父から取材し漫画にした。作品は1930年代後半ドイツに侵略されたポーランドについての父の回想と、現代NYの親子の物語を行き来しながら展開する。ユダヤ人の顔は鼠、ナチは猫、ポーランド人は豚に描き分けられている。ナチスの迫害によって、普通に生活する人々の家庭が壊され奪われていくさまと心理の描写が冷静で、真に迫っている。そういう意味でフランクルの『夜と霧』に匹敵するのではないか。 ナチの蛮行と家族の悲劇によって不条理にも作者が背負うことになった父への憎しみの感情がやりきれず痛い。 作者は本作でピューリッツァ賞を受賞した。

• Several misprinted pages

  Many pages are blurred or spotty, where the ink is either smudged or not completely filled in. I thought it was just how it was published originally, until I compared it to another book which was perfectly fine, no smudged or blurry pages. Apparently, there's no quality check when they print these.

• Jamás había llorado tanto con un cómic, una historia increíble, la edición en pasta dura es bastante buena, de buenísima calidad y las hojas también son increíbles. Merece completamente la pena, la mejor compra para empezar el año.

• La historia del holocausto judio contada por sus victimas y supervivientes. Spiegelman narra el sufrimiento de sus padres y resto de familia durante la ocupación nazi y la segunda guerra mundial utilizando la novela gráfica como via narrativa. Imprescindidible. Para comprender una pequeña parte de la historia del siglo XX. No te dejes engañar por la caracterización animal de los personajes. La obra destila el sufrimiento humano y refleja como se pueden llegar a comportar los seres humanos, y como quedan marcados todos.

• Series Info/Source: This is the complete Maus graphic novel. I got a copy of this as a Christmas Gift. Thoughts: The dense writing style and heavy lined black and white artwork were a bit intimidating at first but once I got started reading the story I didn’t even notice it or find it hard to read. This story is completely engrossing. Spiegelman does an amazing job of alternating between the past and the present and recounting the intense and sad story of his father living through the Holocaust. What amazed me is he did in a way that was incredibly impactful without ever being too dark. I was completely engrossed in this book from page one. And I quickly grew to love Maus’s father and his family. I was continually surprised how much of Maus’s father’s survival was because of how resourceful his father was. His father is extremely adaptable and takes on every chance he has to learn a new skill, this (along with quite a bit of luck) is the number one thing that leads to him surviving the nightmare of the Holocaust. Is this an uplifting book? Not really, it is more of a cautionary tale. Even though his father survives the Holocaust, the effects continue to echo through his life many years later. The people who survived the events of the Holocaust have to live with the Holocaust forever in their minds and this continues to affect their families generations later. So much thought and skill went into telling this story; it was just incredibly well done. There is some irony to the fact that I asked for this for Christmas and then shortly after it was banned in Texas because of inappropriate content. I don’t know how to tell people this…but the whole Holocaust was inappropriate and it would be really hard to tell an accurate story of what happened without going into some of the violence and death that happened. Is the violence and death presented in an excessive way in this book? Most definitely not. Discussions of the gas chambers and killing of children in the streets of ghettos are addressed matter of factly. Hiding in piles of dead people’s shoes and witnessing the aftermath of a gas chamber are things that really happened. At the time these people were trying to survive one atrocity after another; the atrocities were fact and they are presented as such in this book. People did what they could to keep themselves and their families safe. Should you have your five year old read this? Well do you want to explain the Holocaust to your 5 year old? I might hold off for a bit. We talked about the Holocaust with my son in late elementary/early middle school. He actually checked out this very book from his middle school library and had A LOT of questions for us after he read it. They were excellent questions and we had some very good and thoughtful discussions as a family because of this book. This is a incredibly valuable way to learn about the Holocaust. I think it should be available for everyone in middle school and older to read. My Summary (5/5): Overall I was incredibly impressed with this graphic novel and the amazing job it did blending the past of the Holocaust with the effect it continues to have on people’s day to day lives. I would recommend to middle grade and up readers because the Holocaust is a complicated topic and kids need to be a certain age in order to begin to comprehend cruelty on this scale. Is this book excessively violent or “Inappropriate”? No, not at all. It addresses the topic with excellent candor wrapped into an incredibly engaging story of one man’s survival of these horrific events.

• Due to the condition description as "good" I was worried this was a used item. It looks or is brand new, I cannot see that anyone ever touched this book. Great item, thanks.

• the best

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