The Complete Maus
Recommended by Susan Bordo, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #7 in Jewish, Ranked #12 in Holocaust — see more rankings.
Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance. less
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Susan Bordo It’s about the Holocaust. It’s also a comic book, in which the various characters are depicted as animals – the Jews as mice, the Nazis as cats. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Complete Maus is ranked in the following categories:
- #15 in Author Biography
- #21 in Barcelona
- #88 in Biography
- #28 in Censorship
- #15 in Comic
- #63 in Controversial
- #80 in European History
- #19 in Fascism
- #68 in Game Changer
- #54 in Historical Nonfiction
- #78 in History
- #41 in Illustrated
- #35 in Judaism
- #54 in Memory Improvement
- #28 in Poland
- #74 in Postmodernism
- #73 in Pulitzer Prize
- #80 in Racism
- #61 in Trauma
- #60 in True Story
- #50 in University
- #26 in War
- #57 in War Fiction
- #28 in Wars
- #76 in World
- #36 in World War II
- #43 in Writers
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