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The Complete Maus

Art Spiegelman, wanting to record his father's (Vladek Spiegelman) history as a graphic novel, conducts a series of interviews with him over several years. Vladek tells how German policy towards Jews slowly changed in the late 1930s, and how his well-to-do family came to suffer penury, persecution, and loss of life. Vladek tried to make the most of difficult situations in Radomsko, Częstochowa, Sosnowiec, and Bielsko. Eventually, he was sent to Auschwitz as a prisoner.

Between interviews, the novel records the contemporary (1970s-1980s) life of the Spiegelman family in the Rego Park neighborhood of New York City. In particular, it depicts Vladek's difficult personality and Art's attempt to make sense of it. He is exceedingly stingy and makes life very difficult for his first wife Anja (Art's mother, a concentration camp survivor who committed suicide) and his second wife Mala (also a concentration camp survivor). Art contrasts the contemporary Vladek with the historical Vladek, whom he only knows indirectly through his research. He also points out that while Vladek was himself a victim of bigotry that he was known to hold bigoted views against African Americans and homosexuals himself. He comments about the difficulties of presenting Vladek's story accurately. (Wikipedia)

Amazon.com Book link: The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale [Hardcover]

Using The Complete Maus to Enhance the Student's Understanding of Maus

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Drag the font file "Maus Fonts" onto your System Folder to get it installed (on newer Mac OS versions, the file will be placed into the Fonts folder automatically)

Set screen depth to 256 or 32768 colours before playing.

Because "The Complete Maus" is a HyperCard stack, it requires HyperCard to be installed (included on disc).

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