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Maus, II: Opowieść ocalałego: I tu się zaczęły moje kłopoty by Art Spiegelman

11 reviews

spicypb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Gore, Suicide, Addiction, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, War, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Grief, Addiction, Alcoholism, Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

gemstonejasper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

5.0

Everyone needs to read this and the first book. It's a raw and powerful story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Check the content warnings and take care of yourself, but it's a very important book.

An interesting quote from pg. 90 that I will be thinking about for months or even years to come:

Art: I'd rather kill myself than live through all that...

Francoise: What? Returning groceries?

Art: No. Everything Vladek went through. It's a miracle he survived.

Francoise: Uh-huh. But in some ways he didn't survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Torture, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, Slavery, Body horror, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

bookchatwithbeth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, Body horror, Death, Confinement, Gun violence, and Hate crime

untoworthy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, War, and Antisemitism

courtneyivaska's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Maus 1-2 should absolutely be required reading for everyone.  This biographical story of how Spiegelman's parents survived the atrocities of WWII and the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau and sheds lights on the depravity of man and the horrifying choices that people are forced to make during war.  Readers may need to pace themselves (I had to take breaks) but should know that it is worth reading.  In addition to telling the survival story of his father, the book also grapples with the aftermath of war and what happens to people after they have experienced such trauma.  He does not paint his father in a perfect light, instead gives an honest portrayal of someone whose experience is reflected in his treatment of others after the war (i.e. some domestic neglect, racist attitudes toward others, hoarding).   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Gore, Torture, Suicide, Excrement, War, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Gaslighting, and Racism

nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Torture, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, and Grief

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

For as much as Spiegelman struggled with the most difficult of topics, his follow-up on the original work perhaps excels it, not just in the horror of the closing chapters of his father's memories of the death camps, but in the struggles and real failings in addressing his own anxieties around his relationship with his father and that history. Do we find resolution to every thread Spiegelman has pulled? Of course not, but a tidy tying up is nothing history delivers us, and the story--as becomes clear--does not end. We none of us are heroes, and none particularly admirable under such circumstances. Some survive; and that may be all which can be said of them with skeptical confidence. That even these survivors are not so few still with us makes Spiegelman's recording of this oral history all the more significant. I'm grateful for the window into this chapter of the author's life with his father. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Genocide, Racism, and Gun violence

Minor: Child death

rtaire's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

 Support banned books! (This review is a copy-paste of my review for Vol 1)

I definitely recommend most everyone read this book (and the first volume). It's a beautifully nuanced memoir of a holocaust survivor and the complicated relationship between him and his son, the comic artist writing/drawing the book. Glad I read the book now when I am struggling with all the grey space of my own relationship between myself and my mother. Makes me feel more at ease about the lack of clear distinctions of "morally good" and "bad", the messy in-between of reality.

The art style really helped to put some distance between me and the extremely difficult subject matter of the Holocaust, which allowed me to keep reading when I might have otherwise needed to stop to preserve my mental health. Still, some of the images are truly haunting and it helps to be prepared to know that these books cover the worst of what humanity is capable of. I still think it is very worth it to remember these atrocities, especially at a time when people are trying to erase them and ban important books like this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Alcohol, Mental illness, Murder, Xenophobia, Death, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racism, and Sexism

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Death, Hate crime, Genocide, Murder, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Dementia, Racism, Gun violence, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, and Excrement

quirkko24's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Death, Torture, Murder, War, Violence, Suicide, Racism, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Antisemitism