Maus - Art Spiegelman - Maus
Graphic Novel is a work conceived, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, a cartoonist and illustrator with American Jewish origin. It is not a novel, but a graphic novel , call it "bubble" would be an understatement. Maus is in fact the book that clears the 
The story unfolds around the relationship between Artie (Spiegelman's alter-ego) and his father Vladek: Artie tries to mend his relationship with his elderly father becoming tell the story that he had lived during the years of World War II, when it was deported to Auschwitz.
The extraordinary story of a jew survived the concentration camps becomes Illustrated, a comic that looks like a real novel, which manages to create its own language and its symbolism of its own. Spiegelman decides to represent allegorically in his work of the Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs. This choice makes the story a "fairy tale" in which Artie tries to recreate his designs through the terrible experience of his father and all the Jews persecuted by the Nazis, still trying to exorcise what is the sense of shared guilt Holocaust to future generations, a guilt that comes from not having lived those suffering in the flesh, a sort of eternal gratitude due to the previous generation, a gratitude that weighs a ton.
Artie is Art Spiegelman, in all respects, the story is divided between the scenes of the life of Vladek as a young man and the events that Artie lives in the present with Vladek as an old man, the difficulties arising between them and the distance and the coldness that has always been part of their father / son relationship.
Reading Maus says an almost unique, original, something truly innovative, you have never read anything like that. The essential power evoked by the illustrations in black and white Spiegelman is rampant and can involve the reader after only a few pages. As Umberto Eco wrote about Maus: "... it is a beautiful story. And does not let you take more. "
Written by: Andrea Gaetani
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