Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

EAN:9780679729778 Label:Pantheon Author:Art Spiegelman Binding:Paperback

GREAT BOOK!!! its tells a different side of how the jews genocide went through during that time Taught me alot more than i knew.... taught me alot more than i knew2009-03-02 Rating 5. . awesome book!! read for my college course!! you'll never put it down once you read it!. The book was fine, it was the shipping length of time that was the problem Book. By the time my son needed the book, it was already too late2009-02-21 Rating 4. He needed it for school and it arrived after the fact. Disappointing. This is a must read for everyone whom read Maus I Great but not as good as Maus I. Buy both of them and share with everyone you know2009-02-15 Rating 5. Although Maus provides some useful insights into camp live, the best descriptions of that are to be found in the memoirs of Levi and Wiesel and in the "Genocide" segment of the BBC's World at War series A Complex and Moving Story of the Cost of Survival. Maus is really about survival, its true costs, and about how the children of survivors and in a larger sense all of us are survivors of the Holocaust burdened by collective guilt and owing a debt to past and future generations2009-01-30 Rating 5. The graphic novel technique allows Spiegelman to tell several tales at once -- it's not just the Auschwitz narrative that is important, but the current effects of the experience on Spiegelman's father Vladek, mother Anja, and on Spiegelman himself. The book ends with Vladek exhausted, saying good night, in a Freudian slip, to "Richieu", Spiegelman's older brother who died in the Holocaust. This is a fitting image, capturing the direct loss of the Holocaust as well as the cost to guilt ridden survivors like Vladek and succeeding generations who could never quite measure up to the memory of the victims. The most striking images in the book are two photographs: one of the beautiful and angelic Richieu and another of Vladek as a young man in a crisp camp uniform. Vladek was a striking and charismatic figure, who survived on the basis of quick wits mixed in with considerable luck. Had there been no Holocaust, he would have been a fabulously successful industrialist and entrepreneur. But surviving the Holocaust cost him his previous life and reduces him, tragically, to a pathetic figure who guilts his son into seeing him by making up a heart attack, who drives his current wife crazy, who becomes a caricature of the miserly Jew whose cheapness is maddening. The most moving and redeeming quality of Vladek is his love for his first wife Anja, who also survived the Holocaust owing in considerable part to the help and resourcefulness of Vladek. Yet, she commits suicide 25 years later, much like Primo Levi. Vladek destroys her journals in a fit of grief, and it is this loss that haunts the book. The mystery of Anja's death is never addressed or resolved. This is a complex and moving work. . Ordered this book from seller Book Purchase---Flawless Transaction. It came very quickly, as described and I am very satisfied with our transaction2008-12-16 Rating 5. I would highly recommend this seller to anyone. Thank you for good service. MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.