GENRE: Graphic Novel - Memoir
HONORS: 1992 Eisner Award - Best Graphic Album: Reprint
1992 Harvey Award - Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work
1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
1993 Angoulême International Comics Festival Awards - Prize for Best Comic Book: Foreign comic
1993 Urhunden Prize
REVIEW: Art Spiegelman continues to interview his father's experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust, and it is in this second part that Art begins to feel some harsh guilt about his parent's past, as well as the present health and will of his father, Vladek. His father's narrative of the events leading to him and Anje's survival run in parallel to his current day behavior and senile attitude that burden Art and his girlfriend's stay with him. Spiegelman is able to elaborate on a very grim event by alternating scenes of the past and present. Art is often found as the one trying to get the facts straight, while his father is the one where readers see the emotion and trauma involved. The reader learns, not only about the torture and ruthless acts of genocide that the Jews had faced, but one also pick's up on Vladek's skill of using his congeniality to make connections and survive.
OPINION: MAUS is an absorbing take on such an unrelenting subject, but Spiegelman has made it deeply alluring to young readers through its presentation and pace.
IDEAS: A must read for a bibliography on the topic of the Holocaust or recommendation of non-fiction graphic novels.
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