Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Mausintroduced readers to Vladek Spieglman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Mausties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing take of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of family life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale-and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.

Udgivet af Pantheon 1997

Art Spiegelman
Den amerikanske tegneseriekunstner Art Spiegelman blev født den 15. februar 1948 i Sverige. Hans forældre var jødiske flygtninge på vej til USA efter at have overlevet naziregimets rædsler i Polen og Tyskland. Spiegelman begyndte sin tegneseriebane i den amerikanske underground-bølge i 1970'erne, hvor han medvirkede i forskellige antologihæfter. Af Spiegelmans værker er det vist kun hans absolutte mesterværk Maus om forældrenes oplevelser under anden verdenskrig, der er udgivet på dansk. I 1992 fik Spiegelman tildelt Pulitzer-prisen for Maus. Art Spiegelman er gift med franskfødte Françoise Mouly. Deres datter Nadja Spiegelman er forfatter. (Ovenstående personbeskrivelse er taget fra ComicWiki under en Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 licens)