MAUS
Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992, it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize
ART SPİEGELMAN
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) is a cartoonist and intellectual. Art is presented as angry and full of self-pity. He deals with his own traumas and those inherited from his parents by seeking psychiatric help, which continued after the book was completed. He has a strained relationship with his father, Vladek, by whom he feels dominated. At first, he displays little sympathy for his father's hardships, but shows more as the narrative unfolds.
VLADEK SPİEGELMAN
Vladek Spiegelman (1906–1982) is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust, then moved to the U.S. in the early 1950s. He is presented as miserly, anal retentive, egocentric, neurotic and obsessive, anxious and obstinate—traits that may have helped him survive the camps, but which greatly annoy his family. He displays racist attitudes, as when Francoise picks up an African American hitchhiker, whom he fears will rob them. He shows little insight into his own racist comments about others in comparison to his treatment during the Holocaust.
VLADEK & ART SPİEGELMAN
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