Book Review: Maus I -- A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman
This is the first book of Maus, detailing all that happens in Vladek Spiegelman’s life both pre- and during-Nazi control, right before Auschwitz. It is told in a storytelling fashion through comics, with text on each page to guide the story along. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but the way Artie’s father speaks sounds almost exactly like the way Doctor Zoidberg does. You know, from Futurama? One of the best shows ever? No? Okay, I’ll be on my way. I like how Vladek always blames Artie for mixing him up or taking him off course in his stories. It adds an element of family realism to the tale; a sort of “look what you made me do” that my Ukrainian-American family has as well. The use of mice and pigs as personified characters in this story creates an element of distance from the horrific narrative that is the Holocaust and the Nazi regime, but every few pages or so there is a thought that pops back into your head and you remember that these are real people, and that this reall
