When was maus ii published

Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 25, Carol Bookaria rated it it was amazing Shelves: non-fiction , , , favorites , graphic-novel , bookclub.

This second volume continues the powerful story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the author and his dad's story. It is horrific but at the same time it carries a message of hope and survival.

In this volume we find Vladek in Auschwitz and his experiences there are described in detail, however, amidst the atrocities the author is able to interject some humour here and there.

The author also explores deeper his relationship with hi This second volume continues the powerful story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The author also explores deeper his relationship with his aging father.

This novel is absolutely extraordinary, insightful and heartbreaking , I will never forget it and highly recommend it to all. View all 13 comments. Feb 26, Nat rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels , library , memoir. Since I'd read Maus I about a year ago and Nadja Spiegelman's enticing memoir in the summertime, I was beyond ecstatic to find this second volume on the shelves of my local library. And since it's been quite a while, I was grateful that this volume had a quick recap at the start of what occurred before: Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist born after WW II, is working on a book about what happened to his parents as Jews in wartime Poland.

He has made a series of visits to his childhood home in Rego Pa Since I'd read Maus I about a year ago and Nadja Spiegelman's enticing memoir in the summertime, I was beyond ecstatic to find this second volume on the shelves of my local library. He has made a series of visits to his childhood home in Rego Park, N. Art's mother, Anja, committed suicide in Art becomes furious when he learns that his gather, Vladek, has burned Anja's wartime memoirs.

Vladek is remarried to Mala, another survivor. She complains often of his stinginess and lack of concern for her. Vladek, a diabetic who has suffered two heart attacks, is in poor health. In Poland, Vladek had been a small-time textile salesman. In he married Anja Zylberberg, the youngest daughter of a wealthy Sosnowiec hosiery family. They had a son, Richieu, who died during the war.

Forced first into ghettos, then into hiding, Vladek and Anja tried to escape to Hungary with their prewar acquaintances, the Mandelbaums, whose nephew, Abraham, had attested in a letter that the escape rout was safe. They were caught and, in March, , they were brought to the gates of Auschwitz.

But that's also what bothered me in here: I didn't like the way she was portrayed. Like, this wasn't a conversation for her to participate in. I mean, that comment didn't sit well with me at all. And this just So I was more than willing to let the focus shift from the present day. Until I realized just how utterly heart-wrecking Vladek's past is. The scenes at the camp were one of the most hard-hitting.

It's sad, but the above three images gave me a glimmer of hope in this world full of cruel and inhuman suffering that is to say: before I'd read the last panel, but still. This graphic novel also educated me a lot, which I wasn't expecting. I thought I'd heard it all - or at least most - of what there was to know about Auschwitz, but my history lessons weren't even close.

The horrors Vladek and Anja and many others had to go through were jarring. The amount of suffering My heart aches. My mouth is still wide open at that. All in all: I came in unprepared with Maus II. The amount of suffering and anguish and heartbreak left me emotionally spent. I'll no doubt end up thinking about them for a while to come. And it goes without saying that this remains one of the most poignant and harrowing graphic novels I've read to date.

If you're interested in buying Maus II , just click on the image below to go through my link. I'll make a small commission! Support creators you love. Buy a Coffee for nat bookspoils with Ko-fi. View 2 comments. May 28, Maxwell rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels. Fantastic conclusion. I think I enjoyed this one even more than the first. The two stories of Vladek in the past and Vladek in the present really explore interesting topics of generational gaps as well as national differences.

Art's American sensibility versus his father's stinginess--a result of his wartime survival--is extremely understandable and well explored in this volume. It's a harrowing story but so uniquely told and such a wonderful insight into one man's Holocaust survival, I would hi Fantastic conclusion. It's a harrowing story but so uniquely told and such a wonderful insight into one man's Holocaust survival, I would highly recommend it.

View 1 comment. Apr 02, Nandakishore Mridula rated it it was amazing. This was even more devastating than Maus I. Vladek Spiegelman's story is continued here. In this volume, we are treated to an insider's view of daily life at a Nazi concentration camp. As with Maus I, the fact that it is written in comic-book format does nothing to soften the impact - if anything, it heightens it.

In the camp, the inmates are subjected to a slow, drawn-out death sentence as the guards play with them like There is no humanity here, it's every man for himself, and the toughest shall only survive.

And Vladek happens to be one smart, tough mouse. The troubled relationship between Art and Vladek is analysed in detail: and we get a glimpse of how Vladek changed into the self-centred, obsessive-compulsive miser that he has become. Did he survive because these traits were inbuilt, or did the camp life make him what he is? Tantalising question. For me, the most impressive part of the book was the second one, where Art tries to come to terms with his father's death as well as the ethics of making a book out of his life.

Here, all the characters are shown as wearing animal masks, rather than as animals themselves - they have become more humanised and homogeneous, but the masks of race and nationality are not fully discarded. As Art is interviewed by journalists from various countries, the panels depict, at the bottom, heaps of dead mice piled one on top of the other, their faces twisted in agony - this is superb use of the medium, not possible in a conventional narrative.

Art regresses to a child, crying out for his dead mother, as the paparazzi bully him - a sequence both terrifying and comic. A terrific read. BTW, a bigger review is up on my blog. View all 7 comments. Jan 30, Elizabeth Sagan rated it it was amazing.

Such a powerful book! Mar 15, Eric rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Everyone. Shelves: comics , library , nonfiction. When I was a boy living in Germany, my parents and I visited Dachau concentration camp. It was horrible. We saw the ovens, the gas chambers, the graveyards. The visit drove home to me the magnitude of the horror that had been perpetrated there, and the madness of the people who had orchestrated it.

Maus II is mostly concerned with Vladek's time in Auschwitz. It reminded me of all things I had seen when I was a boy, but it also added a new perspective. This graphic novel really drove home to me wha When I was a boy living in Germany, my parents and I visited Dachau concentration camp.

This graphic novel really drove home to me what the inmates of the camps had to do to survive. I think that one of the biggest crimes committed by the Nazis was the way they caused their prisoners to turn their backs on one another, just to survive. That stripping of humanity gets lost sometimes beside the greater horror of the scale of death and destruction they left in their wake. Maus II also deals more intimately with Art's relationship with his father.

We get a greater insight into the causes of the tension between them. We also get to see more of how his father's life and damage affected Art through his adult life, even beyond his father's death. Sep 09, Arnie rated it it was amazing. When I was a kid I read comic books mostly Superman. The Maus books are the only graphic novels I've read and I consider them masterpieces Mausterpieces?

Like Spiegelman's alter ego, I was a middle class child growing up in Queens NYC , the son of Holocaust survivors and couldn't communicate with my father when I was growing up. He got it down perfectly. It was spot on and ranks among the best of Holocaust related literature. Jul 24, Steven Godin rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphic-novels-comics , holocaust. I should have read the Complete Maus at the time of reading Maus 1, of which was ages ago.

So, had to flick through it to familiarize with it again, before reading Maus 2. Not a big fan of graphic novels in general, and the artwork here might not have had the wow factor; nor was it suppose to, but the idea of cats as Nazis and mice as Jews was genius, and the story a compelling and heartbreaking one. And, more importantly, an educational one too, in terms of children experiencing a holocaust boo I should have read the Complete Maus at the time of reading Maus 1, of which was ages ago.

And, more importantly, an educational one too, in terms of children experiencing a holocaust book for the first time: one that hopefully will leave a powerful impression, but at the same time isn't going to cause nightmares. I'm no expert on graphic novels, but this surely has to be in at least the top five of all time. Shelves: graphic-novels-comics-manga , war. And thus the tale is complete. The narrative moves forward to his time in Auschwitz.

And no matter how often I read or see something about Auschwitz it never ceases to deeply affect me. But sadly it is also very real and should never be forgotten. Ultimately this book is not only about surviving the Holocaust, but also about coming to terms with life afterwards. The struggle of Vladek Spiegelman and also that of his son, the author of this book, is very palpable.

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James M. The modern-day relationship between Spiegelman and his father frames the narrative. The book is about several important things: death, hatred, and the Holocaust; the immigrant experience in America; elderly couples with marriage troubles; the relationship between immigrant parents and their completely Americanized adult children.

The Holocaust sections are grueling. But even the framing device, set in the present day, is filled with painful encounters as the narrator — Spiegelman himself, drawn as a mouse — attempts to connect with an elderly father who is bitter, depressed and emotionally withdrawn.

As improbable as it seems, this book ends up working not in spite of its central conceit, but precisely because of it. The overall effect is profound and at times shattering.