My Goodreads review of “Maus”

[mount_oregano]

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


This graphic novel won the Pulitzer Prize, so obviously it’s good, but I think the over-arching story it tells might be underappreciated. Yes, of course, it recounts how Jews were murdered in Nazi Germany, and how the author’s father managed — just barely — to survive. What he had to do to survive and the lessons it taught him about life turned him into a damaged, difficult man. He and his son could not get along. The pain of the Holocaust lingered long after WWII was over.




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Comments

[cmcmck]

Maus nearly broke my heart when I first read it years back.

[mount_oregano]

I can hardly imagine your sorrow.