Graphic novels are not something I typically read. The closest I have come as an adult would be several books compiling the work of various newspaper cartoonists. What piqued my curiosity on this book is that a school board in Tennessee banned this book from the eighth grade curriculum. While a graphic novel, honors received include: The Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and National Book Critics Circle Award. The New Yorker called it “the first masterpiece in comic book history.” The very conservative Wall Street Journal described it as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”
This is not an easy book to read due to the theme. It deals with the treatment of the Jews in Poland by the Germans and Poles at the beginning of the World War II. The main character and his wife end up at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Partly through ingenuity, but mostly Continue reading “Maus by Art Spiegelman”