Monday, April 22, 2013

Maus by Art Spiegelman

I just finished reading this book called Maus. If you are into comics books and history this is the book for you, but even if you don't like comics this is an amazing book. The book is telling the story of Vladek spiegelman a  holocaust survivor. Vladek spiegelman is Art father (the writer and comics artist of this book). The whole book is written by Art as his father telling him the story of  his survival .
There are parts in the story where Art giving us a blink to his relaionship with his father.
It is very intresting to see how an holocaust survivor stays with habbits that he adopted in the days of the war.
As you read the book you srart to forget that this is a comics book, the story takes you away. The drawing inside the book and the way he choose the animals in this book as people is in one word amazing.
In this book you can find a world where maus are the jewish people, the cats are the nazis, the polish people are pigs and the french are frogs.
In the end of the book there is a picture of Vladek from the end of the world war 2 and that picture brings you back to the real life because if until now you were in a world of animals now you see that the story is about real people and that the world can change so fast.
This book takes you to a rollercoster of emotions.
I recommend everybody to read this book, no matter where you came from.
You can see a few pages from the book attached.

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