Maus
Art Spiegelman • 1991
Devastation Rating
Holocaust WWII graphic novel family
Our Take
Spiegelman drew his father's Holocaust survival as Jews-as-mice and Nazis-as-cats, and the form is the argument: this is how we make the past intelligible. The meta-layer — Art interviewing Vladek, Vladek dying, Art's ambivalence — is as devastating as the camps. The second volume is harder than the first.
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