Maus II: A Survivor's Tale
And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Ranked #9 in Animated, Ranked #13 in Holocaust — see more rankings.
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.
This second volume, subtitled And Here My... more
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Rankings by Category
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale is ranked in the following categories:
- #60 in Cartoons
- #77 in Censorship
- #96 in European History
- #41 in German History
- #77 in Historical Nonfiction
- #87 in Human Rights
- #17 in Jewish
- #27 in Judaism
- #31 in Poland
- #74 in Trauma
- #79 in War
- #76 in Wars
- #42 in World War II
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