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A Profound Respect for Art
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:30PM I can easily admit that this has been the single most difficult beginning to anything I have ever written. After having finished the graphic novel entitled "Maus", I spent several minutes in reverence over what I have read to be the most honest and humanizing biography concerning the holocaust. I do not intend to cheapen the gravity of the topic with this statement, yet neither did Art Spiegelman intend to cheapen it is gravity with the production of his work. It is a literary gem the same magnitude as a fist-sized diamond.
It will be impossible for me to explain properly the complexity and detail exhibited within the graphic novel with such short prose, but I hope that the vehemence in my writing will attract others to it. Spiegelman takes on the task of chronicling his father's survival of Auschwitz in a most artistic fashion. The beauty of a graphic novel as his medium rests in the ingenuity of pairing the heavy-handed nature of the subject matter with the light hearted approach of comic-styled graphics; done with flawless balance, he creates an easy to approach understanding without jeopardizing the seriousness of the story itself. It would require a graduate level dissertation for me to approach the many aspects of the interaction between characters, the inclusion of the relationship between father and son after the war and the use of anthropomorphic elements in it’s illustration to depict the racial tensions engendered by the Nazi campaign.
Some people tell me that I am a little long-winded, even verbose; there is nothing more that I can say about this astonishingly well made piece of literature without over simplifying it. I will relate one thing to the reader: brewing beneath the stark honesty of this very personal memoir is an understanding of family; of friendship; of hardship and of loss. To leave this off one‘s list is to deprive oneself of an exceedingly interesting read. I can only reiterate that those who go on to read the graphic novel "Maus" will be touched by it's sincerity and moved by it's profundity.
Reader Comments (2)
MAUS is amazing! I have never been so consumed by a book until MAUS.
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