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Maus: A Survivor's Tale. My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

15 reviews

spicypb's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Racial slurs, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Grief, Confinement, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Medical content, Blood, Child death, and Classism

lauren717's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Murder, Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, Child death, Death, Violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Suicide, War, and Torture

Moderate: Deportation, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Slavery, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Self harm, Mental illness, and Forced institutionalization

angelfireeast24's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Classism, War, Police brutality, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Hate crime, Grief, Gun violence, Deportation, Death of parent, Death, Violence, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Bullying, Antisemitism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

mjones14's review

adventurous dark hopeful sad medium-paced

4.5

It's a horribly sad story and I hate that it was left on a cliff hanger, however I absolutely shall be reading the next installment

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, War, Police brutality, Animal death, Antisemitism, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Murder, Violence, Genocide, Suicide, and Sexism

jakepasseri's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Hate crime, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, and Genocide

Moderate: Mass/school shootings and Gun violence

cstein's review

challenging dark emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

Spiegelman's decision to draw rather than merely write this memoir importantly limits the reader's imagination, leaving drastically less room for confusion, wrong interpretation, or willful ignorance of the facts of his and his father's experiences. In a similarly ingenious way, Spiegelman's cartoon animal characters provide sufficient whimsy and distance from the horrors of the Holocaust to make the work readable, while also prompting frequent pauses to reflect on how the emotions and horrors experienced by these cartoon animals are actually those experienced by very much non-cartoon people. Phew.

As the Newsweek review of this work reads, in part, "Maus compels us to bear witness in a different way: the very artificiality of its surface makes it possible to imagine the reality beneath." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Antisemitism, Death, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Deportation, Genocide, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, War, Vomit, and Excrement

ehmannky's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Antisemitism, Genocide, Violence, Gun violence, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness

nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Suicide, and War

ktdakotareads's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, Murder, War, Confinement, Grief, and Hate crime

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide

rtaire's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the second 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: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Alcohol, Genocide, War, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Physical abuse, Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Death of parent, Violence, and Sexism