The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read”
A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.“A loving documentary and brutal fable, a mix of compassion and stoicism [that] sums up the experience of the Holocaust with as much power and as little pretension as any other work I can think of.”
–The New Republic
“A quiet triumph, moving and simple– impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics.”
–The Washington Post
“Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics’ history: something that actually occurred…. The central relationship is not that of cat and mouse, but that of Art and Vladek. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt.”
–The New Yorker
“All too infrequently, a book comes along that’s as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman’s Maus is just such a book.”
–Esquire
“An epic story told in tiny pictures.”
–The New York Times
“A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution… at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant.”
–Jules Feffer
Über den Autor Art Spiegelman
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Art Spiegelman, 1948 in Stockholm geboren, ist einer der größten Comic-Autoren der USA. In seiner frühen Kindheit emigrierte er mit seinen Eltern, beide Überlebende der Shoah, in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Sein berühmter Band »Maus« hielt die Erinnerungen seines Vaters an den Holocaust fest und gewann den Pulitzer-Preis. In »Im Schatten keiner Türme« beschreibt Art Spiegelman die Traumata der Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 in New York. Art Spiegelman arbeitet, neben seiner Tätigkeit als Comic-Zeichner, als Illustrator für diverse Magazine, gab von 1980 bis 1991 zusammen mit seiner Frau Françoise Mouly das avantgardistische Comic-Magazin »Raw« heraus, lehrte an der New York School of Visual Arts und war als künstlerischer Berater mehrerer Firmen tätig. Für sein Lebenswerk wurde er 2022 mit der »Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters« der National Book Foundation USA ausgezeichnet. Art Spiegelman lebt mit seiner Frau in New York.
