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"MetaMaus" is built around an extensive conversation between Mr. Spiegelman and scholar Hillary Chute about "Maus," which was itself created from interviews that Mr. Spiegelman conducted with his father, Vladek.
An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011
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"MetaMaus" also includes thousands of Mr. Spiegelman's sketches, photos, research notes and images, as well as the transcript of his conversations with Vladek.
An Author Retraces His Steps Barbara Chai 2011
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Then there are important details like the fact that when Vladek tries to pretend that he is not a Jew in Poland, he is shown wearing a pig mask:
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The truth is that the present day Vladek is not a very likeable character.
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We are shown an adult Art Spiegelman asking his father to tell him the whole story – and this Vladek does.
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He tells him the story of the War and the pre - and post-War years, from meeting his future wife in the 1930s in Poland, to the increasing discrimination against Jewish people that first took their numerous family to a ghetto and later took the few surviving members to Auschwitz, from where only Vladek and his wife Anja escaped at the end of the war, seeking shelter in Sweden before moving to America.
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Yes, I had read Maus by Art Spiegelman (just in case you don't know, it tells the story of Spiegelman's father, Vladek, a Polish Jew; Spiegelman draws the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats).
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This version of it that I found online is slightly different from the one in the book: there Vladek and Anja are shown from behind, walking aimlessly in the night towards the crossroad/swastika, and somehow they look even more vulnerable, even more forlorn, even more lost.
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But Spiegelman does get his father's story on tape (though Vladek would rather complain about his second wife) and into his book: the beatings, the gas chambers, the mass graves.
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Synopsis: Harry Vladek attends a PTA meeting at a school for mentally challenged kids.
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