The true story of "Maus", the comic strip by Art Spiegelman

2024-04-03T14:12:58.984Z

Highlights: The true story of "Maus", the comic strip by Art Spiegelman. What place does this major work have in the construction of the memory of the Shoah? What is the historical value of a drawn testimony? Why does the publication of “Maus” mark a milestone in the history of comics? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Pauline Horovitz, director of "Recit de l'enfer d'Auschwitz, Maus d'Art Spiegelman" broadcast Wednesday April 3, at 10:45 p.m., on Arte and arte.tv.

Stéphane Bern recounts a comic strip published in the 1980s, in which a terrible episode in history is described in the pencil of its author who, with cats and mice, relates the fate of his parents who emerged alive from the the hell of Auschwitz. Or the true story of Maus, the comic strip by Art Spiegelman... What place does this major work have in the construction of the memory of the Shoah? What is the historical value of a drawn testimony? Why did the publication of "Maus" does it mark a milestone in the history of comics? To talk about it, Stéphane Bern receives Pauline Horovitz, director of "Recit de l'enfer d'Auschwitz, Maus d'Art Spiegelman" broadcast Wednesday April 3, at 10:45 p.m., on Arte and arte.tv.