Maus - Comic Novel

The two books of the Maus series, Maus I and Maus II, now available together as The Complete Maus, are stunning volumes that graphically portray both the Holocaust and its continuing effects. Art Spiegelman, the books' artist and narrator, tells two stories: the experiences of his parents, Vladek and Anja, before, during, and after the Holocaust, and his own troubled existence as an inheritor of their trauma. Representing Jews as mice and Germans as cats, Maus is an innovative and bold book that defies conventional discussion about genre while re-raising questions about intergenerational transmission of trauma, the relationship ...