Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Maus: Racconto di un sopravvissuto. I, Mio padre sanguina storia by Art Spiegelman

103 reviews

francestea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

As a human being I feel it is our responsibility to listen to stories like Vladek’s. This graphic recounting of his life during (and after) the holocaust is such an easy and accessible way to learn from his experiences. Art Spiegelman is so clever in his artwork. Using animals to represent different groups of people allows the reader to instantly identify their background. It is really, truly, a one-of-a-kind book. Fast paced and incredibly consuming you could easily finish it in one sitting. I’m completely awestruck by how fortunate his parents were to survive in hiding so long before they were taken to a camp. I do lament we cant have had more of his mothers side of the story.  However, I will definitely continue on to book 2 as soon as I can!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, Antisemitism, and War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Child death

twistykris's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Antisemitism, Genocide, Death, Xenophobia, Violence, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Child death

archaicrobin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Art Speigelman illustrates the conversations he has with his father about his experiences during WWII in Poland. This graphic novel doesn’t shy away from the horror that Speigelman’s family endured, and is at times a hard read but a very necessary one. Speigelman includes his father’s story along with scenes in present day detailing how these conversations took place, and the result is a captivating tale that I can’t wait to continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Hate crime, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Racism, Religious bigotry, War, and Xenophobia

cstein's review against another edition

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

shoohoob's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

Required reading for me as a granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. This was really really tough to read, but I’m glad I did. 

So much of Art and his father’s relationship reminds me of mine with my mom. Maybe it’s the intergenerational trauma. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Antisemitism, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Deportation, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

daniellekat's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Child death

Minor: Suicide

untoworthy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Antisemitism, Genocide, Hate crime, and War

stardustdreamer's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Suicide, Hate crime, War, Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Grief, Death of parent, Child death, and Death

Minor: Trafficking and Cursing

mks74354's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Suicide and War

marinapetal's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Antisemitism, Violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, and Child abuse