The young Adolf Hitler applied twice for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and each time was rejected. Don't miss out on something so emotional and powerful. I LOVED it with all my heart and can't even properly express the love. This was unforgettable and deeply moving. Even if graphic novels aren't usually your thing. If you read this and it doesn't affect you, you are heartless.

It's not easy to read at times but it's essential. This story is not a pleasant one but it is incredible. I felt so much love for him, it was unreal. At that moment, I had to stop myself from crying because after reading his incredible story, I saw a picture of the actual Vladek. I loved Vladek so much and in the last few pages, you are shown a picture of Vladek during World War 2. Art's father was definitely a very funny man, even if he didn't mean to be. Just the way Art draws his disapproving father made me smile. Or when Vladek goes to the supermarket to return an open box of cereal, along with other used/opened groceries. I loved the little funny moments in the novel, like when Vladek throws out Art's coat and gives him a 'warm' coat, which Art hates because it isn't fashionable. The love Art and Vladek had for each other. I felt so bad for Vladek at times with the way Art would treat him but it was a normal father/son relationship in the way that sons don't always treat their fathers the best.ĭespite this, you could feel the love radiating from the pages. Even so, Art and Vladek have a pretty normal father/son relationship. Art has a lot of guilt over having such an easy life when his parents went through a hell he couldn't even imagine. One of my favourite parts of Maus was the relationship between Art and Vladek. are meant to self-destruct in my book - and I think they do self-destruct.'

In a 1991 interview, Spiegelman noted that 'these metaphors. 'In making people of a single nationality look 'all alike', Spiegelman hoped to show the absurdity of dividing people by these lines. Jewish people are drawn as mice, German people are drawn as cats, Polish people are drawn as pigs and people from the U.S are drawn as dogs. It is drawn masterfully in beautiful black and white. The Complete Maus are two graphic novels combined to form the story of Vladek Spiegelman's life during World War 2.

The love shown between Vladek and Anja mesmerized me and broke my heart seeing them go through so much cruelty and suffering. This was a story about survival and deep love. His story, as told to his son Art Spiegelman, was one of the most powerful stories I've ever experienced. I loved my Grandfather and I loved Vladek. He reminded me of my Grandfather, a little. This was real and I can't even explain how this affected me because it was the most emotional thing I've ever read. This was an experience, not just a 'read'. This burrowed it's way deep into my heart. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times). Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).

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