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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Graphic NovelsBiography & Memoir
Pages
159
Published
1986
Language
English

Synopsis

Art Spiegelman's Maus I: A Survivor's Tale relates his father Vladek's account of surviving the Holocaust as a Polish Jew, drawn as an allegory in which Jews appear as mice and Nazis as cats. Interwoven with Vladek's wartime story in Poland is the present-day narrative of Art's difficult relationship with his aging, exacting father, as the two work through the process of remembering. First serialized through the 1980s and collected in this volume in 1986, the book traces Vladek's early life, his marriage to Anja, and the family's descent into the Nazi occupation, ending as Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz.

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Graphic Novels Biography & Memoir World War II History

About the author

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Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. Source: [Art Spiegelman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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