Why Did Art Spiegelman Choose to Write the Book in Comic Form
What practice you remember motivated the author, Art Spiegelman to write a comic book almost his male parent's by?
deleted fellow member February 18, 2012 01:57PM
I was just wondering what other people thought his reasons could be for writing a comic book about his male parent's experience than just writing a normal novel...
Spiegelman was already a comic creative person, so it was natural for him to tell the story that way. Making your characters mice is as well probably a way of taking a stride back and abroad and then you lot can write honestly.
I'm non a graphic novel fan, but I thought this was great, and Maus II was every bit proficient as Maus I (I didn't go to Maus 3 - worth it?). Anyway I thought the approach was very innovative, and his portrayal of the father was completely believable, i.e. what a hurting in the ass he could be.
I agree in that Spiegelman was already a comic artist and so this was a natural path to take. I call back the book was not but for him to tell his male parent's story to the world but for his ain personal reasons, as a way of agreement his father's life.
the book as well has an ability to be understood in various ways, the pictures add another dimension to the story. Almost like Brute Subcontract, where the animals take on human characteristics.
I haven't had the hazard to read it yet, just last year Spiegelman came out with I guess an explanation for Maus. Its called MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus.
its because the volume talks about his dads own experiences basically something he lived through and went through and this book basically gave everyone a real life idea of how those camps actually were and how people tried they're best to survive.
Nonetheless, it is withal an emotional experience even though he used mice as the characters:)
I think Fine art Spieglman wanted to express his story, and his father's story through a medium he was comfortable with, which was art. I thought it was a fascinating decision.
It too allowed usa to visualize his feelings (i.e. his nervous breakdown, his sessions with the psychiatrist, etc...)
Perhaps in this format, information technology is also easier to deal with the subject matter. I read them all awhile back.
Comics were his "voice." At offset I was put off by the rough style of the drawings but then came to think people I knew who never understood the insanity of their parents' life in the camps. This is what made Maus accept information technology's touch. Mayhap the book wouldn't have become the teller it is had Speigelman simply used words that were not a strength for him.
Art Spiegelman pretty much expresses his feelings in the starting time page of the book Maus I, where he cries and goes to his father and the father responds by saying "Friends? A couple of days with them without food and you will know who are these friends" or something like that and its a very chilling start. It goes to prove that the Holocaust has been such a horrible experience that information technology changes the very core of a person, very much seen in Art's father, - obsessive, untrusting miserly. These attributes directly affected Art Spiegelman's childhood and perchance he wanted to get to the core of why his father turned out to be that way personally. Also the death of his mom has got holocaust aftermath misery written all over it. All in all, information technology was such a touching and original work!
Comics also allows for the inspired portrayals of Nazi every bit cats and Jews as mice, which would, I suppose, be a terribly hard thing to accomplish in a conventional novel.
I loved that he did the story this fashion, showing us what he went through writing the story and learning nearly it from his father instead of just writing the story. I know it sounds weird, but those are the kind of stories that the majority of us dear the most. The real stories about existent lives told in a fascinating way. Even though I love fantasy and paranormal and dystopian novels, my favorite will e'er be the ones that I can relate to well-nigh existent people just living life but having a story to tell. I wish more stories were told this way, because I loved it. I think that he knew all of this and that was his reason to tell the story this way. And also to show how his father and himself were dealing with and treatment what happened then and how they are now and making it very honest.
Too, the animals and art had a much greater symbolic meaning to information technology which enhanced our read feel.
Add a reference:
Search for a volume to add a reference
add together: link embrace
Flag Abuse
Flagging a post will send information technology to the Goodreads Client Care team for review. We take corruption seriously in our word boards. Merely flag comments that clearly need our attention. Every bit a general rule we do non censor whatsoever content on the site. The simply content we will consider removing is spam, slanderous attacks on other members, or extremely offensive content (eg. pornography, pro-Nazi, child corruption, etc). We will non remove any content for bad language alone, or being critical of a particular book.
briscoebetimesely.blogspot.com
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/807319-what-do-you-think-motivated-the-author-art-spiegelman-to-write-a-comic
Rachel there mice not rats
Oct 12, 2012 07:28AM · flag