6/26/2023 0 Comments Jack and the box art spiegelmanGenuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. This second volume, subti tled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself.
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