Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

26 reviews

untoworthy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, War, and Antisemitism

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, Violence, Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Hate crime, Torture, and Grief

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

rtaire's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

 Support banned books! (This review is a copy-paste of my review for Vol 1)

I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the first volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racism, and Sexism

onamoonbeam's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

that's a narrative!! that's a real story. god

an excellent continuation of the original. i really liked the chapter where you zoom out to see spiegelman sitting on top of a pile of mouse bodies and being questioned by interviewers. the rest of the chapters... seeing one man survive by his skills intelligence and luck and then cutting to how he dies is...sobering? somewhat inspiring? tragic? it definitely feels different to other holocaust narratives i've seen. stories must be told even if there is no just ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Hate crime, Medical content, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, and Genocide

Moderate: Racism

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

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

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

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