A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art, " the first volume...

The New York cartoonist traces the creative process that went into drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, revealing the sources of his inspiration and describing his parents' emotional struggles as Holocaust survivors after the end of World War II.

Art Spiegelman se aproxima al tema del Holocausto relatando la experiencia de su propia familia en forma de memoria gráfica. Maus es la biografía de Vladek Spiegelman, judío polaco superviviente de los campos de exterminio nazis, contada por su hijo Art, dibujante de cómics que quiere dejar memoria de la persecución sufrida en Europa por millones de personas y de sus consecuencias en la vida cotidiana de las generaciones posteriores. In graphic...

In graphic novel format, tells the story of the author's father Vladek Spiegelman's experience as a Jew in Poland during the years leading up to and during the Second World War, along with the author's experiences growing up with the man in New York.

"Al primer volumen de Maus lo alabó la crítica por lo insólito de su propuesta y por tratarse de una obra de arte brutalmente conmovedora. En ella, los lectores conocimos a Vladek Spiegelman, un judío superviviente del Holocausto, y a su hijo, un historietista que intentaba reconciliarse con su padre, con la terrible historia de este y con la mismísima Historia. La forma elegida para relatarlo, un cómic (donde los nazis son gatos y los judíos,...

During Adolf Hitler's rule over Nazi Germany, there were over 40,000 concentration, labor, and death camps built with the intent of erasing an entire population of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as "other examples of impure races." Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg were both young Polish Jews caught up in the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the rise of anti-semitism, and more. But yet they survived. Bluma and Felix's miraculous story of...