Арт Шпигельман — библиография

This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times). 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…

Арту Шпигельману удалось, казалось бы, невозможное - рассказать историю Холокоста в форме комикса. Владек Шпигельман, отец Арта, рассказывает сыну, как прошел через гетто, Освенцим и "марш смерти" на Дахау. Но "Маус" — это и глубоко личная история автора, его попытка разобраться в своих непростых отношениях с семьей. На стыке этих историй и рождается уникальный текст, который без упрощений и пафоса рассказывает об одной из самых чудовищных трагедий XX века.