Maus : un survivant raconte. 2, Et c'est là que mes ennuis ont commencé

As of 2022 a "banned" book. A very important contribution to holicaust surviver's literature. The comic format appealed to me then for sure. The story itself is gripping. Read both 1 and 2. ( )

La mejor historieta de la historia! No puede ser mejor ( )

It's hard to understand how horrible the holocaust was. The atrocities that were carried out by Nazi Germany are nearly indescribable because they were so inhuman. I don't think I will get that image of the mice burning alive, screaming in pain out of my head. ( )

Goodreads Review:
Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, 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 familiararity 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. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily 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.

Such a simple, yet effective way of explaining the holocaust, you could say this is a more digestible way of telling a brutal and horrific story, and not only does it tell you about the event itself, it tells you about the life of someone who survived it after it was over, his experiences and how hard life was even after it ended.
The art is great, easily understandable drawings, nothing too complex, but that just adds to the charm really.
Overall an interesting(and quick) read, definetly worth it. ( )