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Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began

Title

Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began / Art Spiegelman.

Author

Spiegelman, Art

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [1991]
©1991

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Request for On-site Use Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.	Text	Use in library	JFD 19-3449	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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Description

135 pages : chiefly illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

A memoir of Vladek Spiegelman, 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. The story 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.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Getty Literary Endowment.

Alternative Title

Maus 2
Maus two
And here my troubles began

Subjects

Genre/Form

Graphic novels.
Comics (Graphic works)
Comic books, strips, etc.

Audience (note)

Young Adult.

Additional Formats (note)

Also issued online.

Awards (note)

American Book Award, 1992

Contents

Mauschwitz -- Auschwitz (time flies) -- ... and here my troubles began ... -- Saved -- The second honeymoon.

Call Number

JFD 19-3449

ISBN

0679729771
9780679729778
0679748407
9780679748403

LCCN

91052739
9780394556550

OCLC

24319614

Author

Spiegelman, Art, author.

Title

Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began / Art Spiegelman.

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, [1991]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Audience

Young Adult.

Study Program

Accelerated Reader AR UG 3.1 2.0 70910.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.4 7 Quiz: 07482 Guided reading level: NR.

Awards

American Book Award, 1992

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Chronological Term

1939-1945

Cover Title

And here my troubles began

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Other Standard Identifier

9780394556550

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3449

*PWZ (Spiegelman, V.) 92-3347

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