MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago.
Does he probe the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process.
MetaMaus includes a bonus DVD-R that provides a digitized reference copy of The Complete Maus linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman's private notebooks and sketches.
Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.
National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir (2011), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Comics-Related Book (2012)
About the Maus Series
Books in series order
- 1.Maus - A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History(1986)
- 2.Maus - A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began(1991)
- +MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic(2011)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.