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The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

24 reviews

kemrick19's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Xenophobia, Grief, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, War, Violence, Racism, Self harm, Hate crime, Mental illness, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Murder, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Suicide, and Death of parent

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Kidnapping, Death, Deportation, Police brutality, Confinement, Hate crime, Torture, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Dementia, War, Murder, Suicide, Gore, Antisemitism, Child death, Physical abuse, Violence, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Blood, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol, and Toxic friendship

jura_atmos's review

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Genocide, Racial slurs, Confinement, War, Excrement, Child death, Death, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Gore, and Suicide

dakotahreads's review

dark informative tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Violence, War, Death of parent, Suicide, Genocide, Murder, Gore, Racism, and Antisemitism

piperca's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

3.5

I found myself having a difficult time with the father son relationship. Both Flawed and traumatized people for obvious reasons. Found myself wishing that the focus was more heavily focused on the fathers retelling of events rather than the fallout from a damaged person raising a child. I supposed illuminating the generational effects of trauma is important, but had a hard time resonating with or feeling much empathy for the son. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Death, Racism, Child death, Classism, Genocide, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Confinement, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Violence, War, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Xenophobia, Excrement, Gore, Grief, and Gun violence

dexlud's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Maus is a beautiful graphic biography of Art Speigelman's father's experience during the holocaust as a survivor. This book is just stunning and every single person on this Earth has to read this book. I personally believe it should be made essential reading due to how important these topics are. The book is also not trying to glorify his father, even though he was a survivor, he is still flawed. Most history textbooks will only share an experience by the mass, but this is a personal experience that has such significant impact. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide, Grief, Hate crime, Abandonment, War, Animal death, Confinement, Deportation, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Violence, Vomit, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, and Torture

jhbandcats's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Devastating. I can’t begin to imagine how truly horrific the Holocaust was. It must have been so hard for Art Spiegelman to listen to his father tell of his experiences from the mid-1930s to the end of the war. Spiegelman is masterful in turning his father’s words into a visual document of the devastation.

Maus I deals more with the lead-up to the incarceration, torture, and death of the Jews in Polish ghettos and concentration camps. Maus II is more about enduring the camps and finally being saved, and Spiegelman’s fraught relationship with his emotionally damaged father. Everyone in both his mom and his dad’s family was killed, literally dozens were murdered - well, one of his dad’s brothers survived - and his mother, overcome by it all, committed suicide when Spiegelman was twenty. This, of course, further damaged his father, already a man in deep psychological and emotional pain. 

Astoundingly good and beyond horrible at the same time. Everyone should read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Antisemitism, Suicide, Violence, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, and War

pika's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

Nazi Germany concentration camps

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Racial slurs, War, Death, Genocide, Body horror, Grief, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Physical abuse

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I don’t think anyone could ever rate this book as less than five stars. It has completely changed so many peoples lives and given such an insight into the life of a survivor of the Holocaust. As well as the life of the descendants that come after. It was very impactful to read again after so long. I highly recommend everyone read this book at least once if not multiple times throughout their life. It really helps to gain perspective and remember what all people are capable of if we are not careful. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Violence, Deportation, Grief, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Gore, Hate crime, Torture, and Xenophobia

tinyjude's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

An extremely difficult but essential read. Everyone should pick up this graphic novel at least once in their lives. Instead of those diluted tales and fiction written by people who want to profit from the pain of survivors but have no connection, respect and/or knowledge about the topic, this book presents us with the perspective of a Polish Jewish couple and their families, making it a fundamental piece of art and history.

The story is a recollection of the horrors, sorrows and hopes of an Holocaust survivor many years after the events. The novel is devised by his son, with whom he has a complicated relationship over the years. Therefore, the topics and their depiction are brutally honest and fundamental in the study and general knowledge of this moment in history. The objective is not to like the characters, but understand what they have been through and put it out in the world so their stories are finally told and not forgotten.

Although it is extremely unfortunate that he was not able to use his mother's diaries and see her perspective as a Jewish woman and a survivor, the story is nonetheless crucial. I hope to read more about the topic from Jewish people (or any of the other minorities affected and decimated by the Nazis) and especially, about the experiencies, thoughts and after effects of those women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Child death, Death, Antisemitism, War, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Sexism, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Hate crime, Genocide, and Death of parent