Originally posted by Darth Jello
are you f*cking teaching an english class you arrogant prick?
and what's this about being paid?
and furthermore, who the f*ck gives you the right to look down your nose at other people who you don't even know through baseless stereotypical assumptions (which many of us don't fit in the least I might add).
Am I right in thinking that you're all ranty, bitter and swearing because you were hoping I'd post a picture of myself naked? Calm down - maybe next time.
And mind your language, it's disgraceful.
Originally posted by Mr Zero
[B]Maus : A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman.There are many reasons why MAUS should be on your reading list. It's important because of the issues it addresses, because it is widely available (you might even find it in your library) and generally well respected so you don’t have to take just my word for it: It won the Pulitzer prize. Let me just stress that - this is a comic book which won a Pulitzer. (the oscars of literature.)
However I'm suggesting you give it a shot because it's a damn fine story expertly told and if you ever considered yourself a "comics fan" then MAUS is our War & Peace. It's the thing we can be most proud of. You can read it in public and if anyone gives you shit then you can whimper "it won the Pulitzer" while they kick your ass and steal your lunch money.
Set in both the "present day" and flashing back to WWII MAUS concerns itself with the relationship between a boy and his father (present) and the fathers reminiscences about his treatment at the hands of the Nazi's (WWII) As absorbing as the biographical relationship between author and father is - it's the harrowing story of being a Polish Jew under the Nazi's that sets this work apart. If you are never going to get round to reading Primo Levy then Maus is a way of leaning a little about the personal cost of the Holocaust.
Spiegelman's use of anthropomorphic characters is very simplistic. (Jews are mice, Nazis are cats.) This "trick" has many functions in the story - it allows Spiegelman to pare down the appearance of the characters to a base shape simplicity - and as such the near blank faces become everyman. It also serves as it did in Orwell's animal farm to allow us breathing distance from the narrative - and so freed from the constraint of identifying too strongly and withdrawing when the tale gets dark: we can afford to draw closer and bear witness to the horror.
Maus is far from a simple comic - but it's not hard to understand and it's very accessible. It's complexity lies in it's subject matter and the raw heartache of knowing that the tale is based on Spiegelman's fathers own experiences. It's a horrific, honest and deeply moving work that anyone who reads comics should be proud to own.
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Wait.This was a joke right?I'm sorry but I found this extremely dissapointing. 😑