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Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is the illustrated true story of Vladek Spiegelman’s experiences during World War II, as told by his son, Artie. It consists of Book One: My Father Bleeds History, and Book Two: And Here My Troubles Began / From Mauschwitz to the Catskills and Beyond.
Maus tells two stories: how Art Spiegelman’s father Vladek survived World War II and the Holocaust, and how Artie Spiegelman turned that story into the graphic novel Maus. Read the full book summary, the full book analysis, and explanations of important quotes from Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.
Summary. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is a graphic novel, and the characters in this story are depicted as anthropomorphic animals (animals that talk, dress, and behave like humans). The Jewish characters, like Artie, his father Vladek, and their families, appear as mice.
Maus Summary. Artie Spiegelman, a young Jewish-American cartoonist, arrives for a visit at the home of his father, Vladek, after a long estrangement. Vladek is sick and unhappy, stuck in a bad marriage to a resentful woman named Mala, and still mourning the loss of his first wife, Anja, to suicide ten years earlier.
Summary. Analysis. Artie is lying in bed with his wife, Françoise, when the telephone rings. Mala is on the other line, yelling in frustration. Vladek climbed onto the roof to fix the leaky drainpipe, she says, and she had to rescue him when he got dizzy. Artie is exasperated.
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Maus by Art Spiegelman was the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize. It originally ran in Spiegelman’s Raw magazine between 1980 and 1991 before receiving mainstream attention as two collected volumes, Maus I in 1986 and Maus II in 1991. This guide is based on the 1996 complete edition.
