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After a five-year wait, comics enthusiasts who don't regularly read Raw, the underground comics' best magazine, can at last read the second half of Maus, Art Spiegelman's Holocaust comic book...
Spiegelman began Maus in 1978, in part as a way to get closer to his father, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Anja. As much as reviewers have acclaimed Maus as a telling "survivor's tale," the book centered more on the strained relationship between Spiegelman and his father...
...visit Vladek, Artie discusses with Francoise his doubts about writing Maus: "It's so presumptuous of me. I mean, I can't even make sense out of my relationship with my father... How am I supposed to make any sense out of Auschwitz? Of the Holocaust...
This second narrative draws the reader in and personalizes Vladek's unreal life in the death camps. The suffering which Art Spiegelman sensed under the surface of his family life comes alive. When Francoise and Artie cannot sleep because Vladek screams in his sleep, the effects of the holocaust upon those who lived through it becomes all the more tangible. Spiegelman has said that he grew up thinking it was normal to live in a house where people woke up screaming every night...
Maus is, above all, a story of a family and how something which is now, in so many minds, an abstract historic events, can still touch everyday lives. Spiegelman realizes the historical importance of the Holocaust--how could he fail...