Maus

Maus is the biography of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi death camps, told through his son Art, a comic book artist who wants to leave a memory of the terrifying persecution suffered by millions of people in Europe subjected to Hitler. and of the consequences of this suffering in the daily life of subsequent generations. Departing from the forms of literature created until the publication of Maus, Art Spiegelman approaches the theme of the Holocaust in an absolutely innovative way, and for this he relates the experience of his own family in the form of a graphic memoir, using all the stylistic and narrative resources. traditions of this genre and, at the same time, inventing new ones. The radical narrative of this work marked a before and after in the universe of the graphic novel.