Art Spiegelman has created MAGIC !! He has taken a Horrific story - a story of a Holocaust survivor - a survivor of the Auschwitz concetration camp - his own father, and given it a whole new DIMENSION.
Firstly, he made the story into a comic book. Then he has portrayed the Jews as MICE and the Germans as mean CATS. You relate to this story at a totally different level because of all this !
It is , not a Sob story though it is full of the horrors suffered by the Jews at the hands of the Nazi Germans during World War II. It is a story of Heroism - in its most relatable way - not heroism of all the spectacular War Movie type ! It is a story of Determination - the Determination to Survive which drives Art's father Vladek Spiegelman throughout the toughest of situations. It is a story of Love. This was one of the biggest motivations that pushed Vladek to survive - his love for his wife, Anja.
Another dimension which makes the story so special is the depiction of the strained relationship between Art and his father. Art just cannot relate to all that his father suffered and gone through. And he could not accept what his father had become as a result. Art even shows us how he goes to a shrink to deal with his GUILT of not habing gone through what his father when through !
In all, a masterpiece - a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, this is a classic you MUST MUST experience !!!
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