by Art Spiegelman · Trilita · tapa dura · ISBN 9788416249060
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"Maus" is the biography and testimony of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew, survivor of the Nazi extermination camps, told through his son Art, a comic book artist who wants to leave a memory of the terrifying persecution suffered by millions of people in Hitler's Europe, and of the consequences of this suffering in the daily life of later generations. The Holocaust - the systematic, cold and premeditated killing of millions of Jews - has often been described as absolute evil and, therefore, as something inexpressible. Departing from the forms of all previous literature on the subject, Art Spiegelman seeks to approach expressing what is inexpressible through the particular experience of a family, his own, and chooses the comic strip as a narrative form, putting into play all the stylistic and narrative resources traditional to this medium, while inventing new ones where those do not reach. The narrative radicality of this work has changed the medium from top to bottom: there is a before and after "Maus" in comics.
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
