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Maus 1 and 2 by Art Spiegelman is the only product of its kind is a graphic novel - simply put, comics - the Holocaust. The first part was published in 1986, the second - in 1991, a year later, "Mouse" was the only example of this genre to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
 "Mouse" - an autobiographical book about how the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew who survived Auschwitz, said his son, born after the war, the story of his survival in the ghettos and extermination camps. In this case, all the participants of the events described in the comic depicted as animals. Germans - cats, the Jews - mice, Poles - pigs, the Americans - the dog and so on.
Personally, I have read "Mouse" is contradictory emotions. The very idea of the whole story outline in the form of a graphic novel created deliberately rough drawing of flowers prison uniforms - it is original, it has eyes, it is deposited in the mind.
Vladek Spiegelman, describing the story of his survival as a game of cat and mouse, turning the Holocaust into an adventure novel - as befits a comic book. According to the laws of the genre novel's protagonist is constantly exposed to grave danger, but always comes out unscathed, giving the reader to take a breath, digest read and enjoy resourcefulness and tenacity of the hero. "Mouse" in this sense is sometimes reminiscent of "Robinson Crusoe". And, of course, adventure genre suggests that in the end everything will be fine, but it is a very important condition for maintaining the reader's interest. We are talking about the Holocaust, a happy ending is not possible - but the story of a single Wladek end happily. He did not just survive, but reunited in the end of the book with his wife - and eventually the light will be Art, author of the novel.
However, Vladek - not the only hero of "Mouse," and his adventures - is not the only topic: perhaps there is more important figure of the author and his reflection as the creation of the book.
In the second volume of "Mouse" Art Spiegelman describes how after the death of his father goes to a therapist - Czech Jew who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz: he speaks of his guilt - for what was never there, and on the guilt of his father - who was there and survived, unlike many others. And the therapist replies: "Ultimately, life is always on the side of life, and one way or another, but the victims are to blame. Although not the best people survived the camp, and the best were killed there. This all happens. So is it worth digging up history? After all, people do not change. "
When Spiegelman says that in his youth sometimes "was that the shower instead of water flowing" Zyklon B "" and "wanted to be in Auschwitz with their parents to be able to understand what they have experienced," he recreates the experience of the European human, informed and educated in respect to the historical memory.
Freed from captivity, Vladek is reunited with his family and is in the ghetto, where to start to take away the old men: first family of their hides, but in the end put to death as soon learned Vladek, it did not help, but as we know now, this is the general rule: developing Art Spiegelman image, after his grandparents take all. But in this episode shows how the human mind seeks new algorithm for survival when the apocalypse - and is ready to pay this price, in civilian life unpresentable.
So it turns out that the guilt - expensive, but necessary price recovery. If a disaster fit into the life of one generation, the memory of a peaceful life helps her to return. According to the author, about the Holocaust, he learned from the stories of his father, who crashed in his memory forever. To me as a reader, despite the fact that it's just a comic,
It made a huge impression and made me think of the many problems of mankind. The story itself Wladek told in "Maus" (not a book as such, namely the story of a man) - is not unique; those who read Remarque, Kertész, other books about Nazi concentration camps, read or watched Documentaries can say that nothing new has been learned. And they will be right, perhaps even probable. But I thought that after each such traversed hell "story survivor" has the right to be told. Everyone has the right to be heard. And because it has earned that right among their suffering and losses. And because more, all of them - not only evidence of the terrible past of which it is necessary to know and remember, but also the future - that does not happen again, ever!

Reference list

Spiegelman, Art. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Print.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: and Here My Troubles Began.New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Print.