Reviews tagging 'Deportation'

Maus: Povest preživelog. I, Moj otac krvari istoriju by Art Spiegelman

13 reviews

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