Maus
Art Spiegelman • 1991
Devastation Rating
war historical trauma family
Our Take
Spiegelman draws the Holocaust through mice and cats and the story of interviewing his father, and the form's apparent simplicity is its moral genius. The survivor's guilt and the son's guilt and the reader's guilt run in parallel. Maus is a genocide document that happens to be a graphic novel and it is among the best either category has produced.
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