Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Maus, historia de un sobreviviente: Y aquí comenzaron mis problemas by Art Spiegelman

70 reviews

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Murder, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Dementia, Racism, Gun violence, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Excrement

leweylibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Violence, War, Antisemitism, Death, and Gore

georgiajala's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

This was perfect to me 💜

It is difficult for me to imagine Art putting this together following the death of both of his parents. He did a beautiful job.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Genocide

thewordsdevourer's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

this book deserves more than 5 stars for its historical and moral values, but it gets 3 stars from me when considered from a "like" standpoint. the historical events and details depicted are sickening and horrific, where death is all-encompassing. the drawings and the metaphors are impactful and utilized very effectively. i also admire the way the author portrays his father, a complex man whose resourcefulness, wit, and luck saved him, but whose thoughts and habits in his aging years can be frustrating. th second volume of maus is an important work of both art and history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Body horror, Death, Murder, Genocide, Violence, Confinement, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Suicide, War, and Grief

selfsoulfriend's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Suicide, Death of parent, and Child death

awashinfeeling's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Genocide

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Death of parent

cati's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Genocide

Moderate: War and Murder

kengiedamali's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death of parent, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Child death, Excrement, War, Antisemitism, Death, Murder, Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

tabula_risa's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, and Genocide

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and War

bekkabergamot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

<i>Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began</i> picks up where the first book left off with Art Spiegelman's father being captured by the Nazis.  Like the first book, the storyline jumps between the author's relationship with his aging father and his act of writing the book alongside his father's story of surviving the death camps of the Holocaust.  The juxtaposition between father and son showcases that trauma is intergenerational.  

Something that really struck me by these books is the moments of humor that break through the agonizing pain and tension of the story.  Ultimately, Art's father's irritating and endearing behavior can be seen as all of our elderly relatives (complaining about ailments and being stuck in his seemingly pointless routines).  If anything it depicts a truth everyone should know, but people prove that it is sadly not a universal truth: these atrocities happened to real people.  Real people had their loved ones, their property, and their family mementos stripped away from them simply because others decided that they were inferior, inhuman.  

These books should be read together.  I truly believe that the medium of the graphic novels offers an insight that more traditional books I have read by other survivors (or in this case the child of a survivor) are unable to offer.  This should be mandatory reading.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent and Suicide