Maus I - Art Spiegelman > Reviews

Advantages: an extraordinary book, very touching
Disadvantages: none

...overwhelmed by the success his Maus stories have, ad people urge him to give them the permission to use his mice for their own purposes (which he refuses), he has to see a psychiatrist for help. On the next level we find the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the author's fictitious alter ego, born in the USA as the son of a Jewish couple, survivors of the holocaust, interviewing his father about his life. This is the third level, Vladek Spiegelman tells ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: None

The Holocaust was...is...will forever remain, if not THE single most diabolical and depraved, cold-blooded and calculated act of perverted, bestial evil ever perpetrated by members of the human race, then at least it's probably the most infamous and best documented. And surely such a grotesque act could never occur again. But human nature being what it is, I'm sure that there's a snot-nosed, greasy little oik somewhere or other who at this very moment ... Read review

Advantages: Many.
Disadvantages: Distress.

...to be glad or not. Maus is a powerful book. It tells one of the saddest stories in a history of sad stories man has created. Maus is the story of the Holocaust. It's told in comic strip format and that, of course, is what had attracted Conor, aged seven. I said it was a very sad book and was he sure he'd like to read it and he said he was sure. So together, we read. Maus is written by Art Spiegelman, an American cartoonist. It tells the story of ... Read review