by Art Spiegelman · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467232202
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Maus is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that tells the story of his father, a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust in Poland. The work uses anthropomorphic animals to represent the different ethnic and national groups: Jews are represented as mice, Germans as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs. Through interviews with his father, Spiegelman interweaves the traumatic past with his own conflicted relationship with him, exploring themes of memory, trauma, and the difficulty of transmitting the experience of the Holocaust to future generations.
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.
