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Feb 11, 2022 · The book has moving flashback sequences as his father describes passing as a Gentile, hiding out in bunkers, and facing death in a concentration camp. Here's Art Spiegelman talking to Terry Gross.
- Terry Gross
Spiegelman's parents were Polish Jews Władysław (1906–1982) and Andzia (1912–1968) Spiegelman. His father was born Zeev Spiegelman, with the Hebrew name Zeev ben Avraham. Władysław was his Polish name, and Władek (or Vladek in anglicized form) was a diminutive of this name.
May 3, 2024 · Art Spiegelman, American author and illustrator whose Holocaust narratives Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) and Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (1991) helped to establish comic storytelling as a sophisticated adult literary medium.
Dec 10, 1991 · But it was the only way Mr. Spiegelman knew to tell the story of his father, Vladek, a handsome textile salesman who survived the concentration camps with cunning and luck; of his mother, Anja,...
Maus, often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, 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.
- Art Spiegelman
- 1991
In the book Art Spiegelman creates in order to understand his father and what he went through during the Holocaust, Art is bluntly honest about his relationship with his father.
Oct 5, 2011 · Maus blends the stories of Spiegelman's trying relationship with his father and a horrifying tale of Auschwitz, as seen through his father's eyes. Spiegelman drew the Jews as mice and the...
