The Complete Maus

A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics'; - Washington Post Maus is the harrowing story of the author';s parents, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living in Hitler';s Europe, and then his father dealing with Art Spiegelman';s questions as he explores this past - all drawn with cats and mice. Vividly detailing the unspeakable through the pictorial and diminutive, it blends tragedy and comedy by turns. Against a backdrop of history too large to pacify, Art Spiegelman brilliantly meditates upon the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. This is a contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.