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Though 544 pages long, Backlash is anything but a dry treatise. Faludi's tour of 1980s America takes the reader from a Guess jeans photo shoot to the dinner table of a leading anti-abortion activist, providing a fascinating look at the making of U.S. society and culture. Anyone interested in how women are doing today--and especially anyone who thinks they are doing just fine--should read this book...
...Spiegelman dwelt upon Vladek's foibles, however, he and his readers learned about pre-war Jewish life in Poland. By the end of Maus I, Spiegelman had described more than just the facts about Vladek's life--the reader could see his factory, expropriated by the Nazis; sense his daily life and the makeup of his surroundings; and know his habits and his manner of speech...
Comic books, perhaps more than any other medium, seem designed for the mixture of biography and autobiography displayed in Maus. The comic book structure allowed Spiegelman to segue easily from one reminiscence to another and from past to present to imagination without confusing the reader...
Vladek tells how he adjusted to camp life and helped learn to survive by teaching English to a Polish kapo, or head prisoner--Poles are pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs and French frogs in the cartoon world of Maus. The reader also learns of Vladek's attempts to help his wife, who was imprisoned in Birkenau, a much larger camp near Auschwitz. "There it was just a death place with Jews waiting for the gas," Vladek says...
...narrative of Maus would leave the reader breathless with disgust if Spiegelman did not often interrupt it to tell the story of his relationship with his father. The survivor's tale which seems the main thread of Maus's narrative is made more palpable as the reader gets to know Vladek both in camp life and "ordinary" life...