Book+Review---Maus+A+Survivor's+Tale

==// MAUS: A SURVIVOR’S TALE // is a graphic novel as well as a biography about a Jewish Holocaust survivor and his family. It is a comic book that portrays true events of the Holocaust in cartoon and in allegoric form – the Jews are depicted as mice, the Germans cats, the French frogs, the Americans dogs, etc. As Art Spiegelman narrates this tale of survival, he mingles terrible events in his Jewish father’s past, including his ordeals in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau, alongside present-day events, which involve Vladek’s troubled relationships with his son Art, “Artie”, and his second wife Mala, who is another survivor. Art’s conversations with his father throughout the story provide a frame for the Holocaust narrative and give ironic depth to the story. ==

== This compelling tale opens in Rego Park, New York, with Artie in discussion with his father about life in Poland and the war. We also learn that Artie’s mother committed suicide and that his father has a heart condition. Art Spiegelman is not too close to his father because of Vladek’s unexamined past, which has left deep wounds in both of them. A Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of all time, //MAUS// deals with one of the personal victims of Nazi persecution; ultimately, the survivor Vladek and other like him become prisoners of history. ==