The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.

In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art.

Avec le tome I du Maus d'Art Spiegelman, les lecteurs avaient fait la connaissance de Vladek Spiegelman, Juif polonais rescapé des camps de la mort, et de son fils, Art, dessinateur aux prises avec son père. Le terrifiant parcours de ce dernier et l'Histoire elle-même s'y conjuguaient déjà. Cette suite tant attendue, toujours en BD, dont les personnages ont des têtes d'animaux - les Juifs sont des souris, les Nazis des chats -, nous conduit des baraquements d'Auschwitz aux bungalows des monts Catskill, dans l'Etat de New York. Bestiaire insolite, qui nous ôte brutalement le plus vague sentiment de familiarité, Maus exprime l'indicible sans sombrer dans le grotesque. En deux temps - les années 75-80, cadre temporel de ses conversations avec Vladek et, en flashback, les années 30-40, époque des événements racontés - Spiegelman dessine la mémoire. Drame en cinq actes, pour une double survie : celle du père, mais aussi celle du fils qui se débat pour survivre au survivant. Une épopée en bulles.

The continuation of Spiegelman's story of his father's life as a concentration camp survivor. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Spiegelman balances flashbacks of his father's harrowing Holocaust experiences with scenes of the present.

The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel

Celebrado en el mundo como una genuina obra de arte, Maus es un testimonio de supervivencia realmente excepcional. La primera parte de la obra presento a Vladek Spiegelman, judio polaco atrapado en la Europa nazi, y a su hijo Art, que ha creado este libro como una manera de explicar la relacion con su padre y de rendir homenaje a su familia perdida. El relato de Vladek se detenia al llegar a Auschwitz. Este segundo volumen, subtitulado Y aqui comenzaron mis problemas, nos traslada del infierno diario en las barracas del campo de exterminio a la nueva vida en las afueras de Nueva York. Con un talento fuera de lo comun, el autor ha conseguido transmitir en imagenes de historieta no solo todo el horror del Holocausto sino tambien el autentico drama humano de quienes sobrevivieron. Hondamente tragico, Maus une a la importancia del tema una fuerza expresiva de rara originalidad. Es un libro memorable.

In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art

A New Yorker contributor and co-founder of RAW traces the creative process that went into his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, revealing the inspirations for his work while providing on an accompanying DVD a reference copy of The Complete Maus and audio interviews with his father.

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