num_pages: 296
description: <p><p>at Last! Here Is The Definitive Edition Of The Book Acclaimed As &#8220;the Most Affecting And Successful Narrative Ever Done About The Holocaust&#8221; (<i>wall Street Journal</i>) And &#8220;the First Masterpiece In Comic Book History&#8221; (<i>the New Yorker</i>). It Now Appears As It Was Originally Envisioned By The Author&#58; <i>the Complete Maus.<br><br></i>it Is The Story Of Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler&#8217;s Europe, And His Son, A Cartoonist Coming To Terms With His Father&#8217;s Story. <i>maus</i> Approaches The Unspeakable Through The Diminutive. Its Form, The Cartoon (the Nazis Are Cats, The Jews Mice), Shocks Us Out Of Any Lingering Sense Of Familiarity And Succeeds In &#8220;drawing Us Closer To The Bleak Heart Of The Holocaust&#8221; (<i>the New York Times</i>).<br><br><i>maus </i>is A Haunting Tale Within A Tale. Vladek&#8217;s Harrowing Story Of Survival Is Woven Into The Author&#8217;s Account Of His Tortured Relationship With His Aging Father. Against The Backdrop Of Guilt Brought By Survival, They Stage A Normal Life Of Small Arguments And Unhappy Visits. This Astonishing Retelling Of Our Century&#8217;s Grisliest News Is A Story Of Survival, Not Only Of Vladek But Of The Children Who Survive Even The Survivors. <i>maus </i>studies The Bloody Pawprints Of History And Tracks Its Meaning For All Of Us.</p><h3>san Francisco Examiner</h3><p>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.</p>
language: en
title: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon Graphic Library)
publisher: Pantheon