【英語島讀書會】Maus

Maus
Vol. I: My Father Bleeds History
Vol. II: And Here My Troubles Began

作者：Art Spiegelman
出版社：Penguin Books

這是史上第一本獲得普立茲獎的漫畫，內容以第一人稱角度帶領讀者走進納粹集中營，重現屢被忽視的屠殺歷史。
《Maus》以對比鮮明的風格、精彩的視覺敘事呈現陰暗的歷史文本，漫畫體裁將讓你有獨一無二的閱讀體驗。
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Every form of media has masterworks that define what it truly means to be that medium -- film has The Godfather Pt. 1, music has The Dark Side of the Moon, and painting has Guernica. To be a classic, a work must activate the unique character of that medium.

每一種形式的藝術，都會有幾部大師之作，堪稱定義了該種藝術。例如電影有《教父I》；音樂有Pink Floyd的《The Dark Side of the Moon》（月之暗面）專輯；繪畫有畢卡索的《Guernica》（格爾尼卡）。一部作品若要成為經典，必須將該種媒材不可取代的特質激發出來。

This is a comic book, and it is a story of the Holocaust. It is told by the author's father Vladek as he recounts his experiences as a Polish Jew surviving what the Nazis called "the final solution to the Jewish question" -- Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jewish race (which succeeded in wiping out 6 million of the Jewish people).

這是一本漫畫，一個關於納粹種族屠殺的故事。故事來自作者父親Vladek的親身經歷，Vladek是一位倖存於大屠殺的波蘭猶太人，述說著當時納粹所謂「猶太問題最終解決方法」的恐怖屠殺歷史。