Name: Complete Maus
Rating: 4.519540229885058 (870 reviews)
ISBN: 9780141014081

Art Spiegelman

Combined 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 Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

Complete Maus

Ans Rizwan

Renee Dick

What an interesting and creative way to tell a story. An important story. I love how it also shows the process of writing the story at the same time as telling the story. Something that can only be done in a graphic novel format. My only disappointment is that the story finished very abruptly. And I do wish that Artie had found a way to understand understand his father.

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). 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. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. 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 is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. 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. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.

The Complete Maus

A. D. Knapp

Just stunning. One of the best things I've ever read.

Arihant Verma

The face that Art has made comics about the process itself of making this epic graphics novel, is mind blowing. It is what keeps this graphics novel about Holocaust, humble, non presumptuous and real.

In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art

A Survivor's Tale : and Here My Troubles Began

Maus II

Melissa Palmer

Book #116 Read in 2016
Maus 2 by Art Spiegelman

This is the graphic novel sequel to Maus and picks up where that book left off. Vladek continues to tell his son Artie about his time in the concentration camps and life after the holocaust. It has forever changed Vladek. This was a good read.

Mani Mohan

Thanks to my friend Murali who recommended this gem. Never thought I'd like a comic book / graphic novel this much. I have picked up MetaMaus next to understand more about Maus / Art and the thinking behind the writing and choice of characters. My perspective about graphic novels has changed after reading this, and am looking forward to reading more.

Rohan Uddin

A daring and highly emotional book, which follows the life of the cartoonist's father as he survives the brutality of the Nazis in Poland. Beautifully written, amazingly drawn and so much more than a Holocaust story. Just wonderful.

Zoe Stricker

poignant and brilliant...quite the homage

I've never been into graphic novels or comics; that being said I've loved everything about this one.

While I've read a good deal of books about WWII, a lot of the information is widely known, but the honesty and how genuinely it feels coming from the author's father, to him, to us, it's what makes this so much better.

I loved the art, the flow, the part where the fourth wall is practically broken and the author talks about his depression and his therapist.

This is the first time where I've understood the most what war did to humanity, what Nazis did to Jews, what it was like.

It was very interesting as well, to put things into perspective, communication and news didn't spread as we're used to, and the story let's you into this feeling of not knowing.

Isabela Ospina

I've never been into graphic novels or comics; that being said I've loved everything about this one.

While I've read a good deal of books about WWII, a lot of the information is widely known, but the honesty and how genuinely it feels coming from the author's father, to him, to us, it's what makes this so much better.

I loved the art, the flow, the part where the fourth wall is practically broken and the author talks about his depression and his therapist.

This is the first time where I've understood the most what war did to humanity, what Nazis did to Jews, what it was like.

It was very interesting as well, to put things into perspective, communication and news didn't spread as we're used to, and the story let's you into this feeling of not knowing.

So glad I picked this one up.

Gisela Ayala 

Wow just wow. Reading this graphic novel was definitely an experience. It was so so sad but an interesting take on the Holocaust from the a survivor's perspective but told by his son.

Complete Maus

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