Maus

Maus is a Cartoon of Art Spiegelman. She tells, through the dialog of the author and of her father, Jewish Polish, survivor of the ghettos and Auschwitz, the history of persecutions Nazis, since the first anti-Jewish measurements until the collapse of Third Reich and the immediate post-war period. While being a historical testimony on the Shoah, this work approaches topics also as delicate as the question of the survival at all costs when the law is that of most extremely, of the Antisémitisme just after the Second world war, of the Racisme on behalf of the Juif S, of the relations father-wire, and especially, the difficulty for the author himself, Jewish of the generation “according to” exorcizing this terrible last, building themselves in the shade of a survivor and psychologically to manage the celebrity whom it gained through the “exploitation” of the destiny of his parents.

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In its work, Art Spiegelman depicts the various national groups by various species of animals: the Jews are represented by mice (“Maus” means “mouse” in German), the Germans are represented by cats, the French are represented by frogs, the Americans are represented by dogs, the Swedes are represented by dashes, the Poles are represented by pigs, the British are represented by fish, the Tziganes are represented by butterflies bombix and the newborn of a connection between Jewish and German people is represented by a mouse with the marked peeling of cat-like stripes. The use of the Zoomorphisme, a familiar style with the cartoons and the cartoons, is a reference to the images of propaganda Nazi which depicted the Jews like mice and the Poles like pigs.

This work received the Prix Pulitzer in 1992 and was translated into eighteen languages.

Editions

  • Maus - a survivor tells
  • Maus , volume 1 - My father bleeds the history - ISBN 2080660292
  • Maus , volume 2 - And it is there that my troubles began - ISBN 2080666185
  • Maus , the integral - ISBN 2080675346

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