![]() In the frame-tale timeline in the narrative present that begins in 1978 in New York City, Spiegelman talks with his father Vladek about his Holocaust experiences, gathering material and information for the Maus project he is preparing. In 1992, it became the first and so far only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (the Special Award in Letters). ![]() Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. The work employs postmodernist techniques and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, the British as fish, the French as frogs, the Swedish as reindeer, and the Roma as gypsy moths. Serialized from 1980 to 1991, it depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Maus is a nonfiction book presented in the graphic novel style, written by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. ![]()
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