Question

Choose either Maus or All Rivers Run to the Sea.How do genre and point of view contribute to the power of Holocaust literature?

Answer 1

Maus is a graphic novel which depicts the author Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences. His father was a Holocaust survivor. Spiegelman uses postmodernist techniques and depicts Jews as mice. The book became an important work which it went out to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 being the first book in that category. Maus is considered an important work of Holocaust literature because the studies on the book made significant contributions to Holocaust studies. The book allows us to see precisely how memories became authorized. Spiegelman not only depicts the story in an allegoric point of view, but also he presents the private life in a written form.

Answer 2

I think those aspects have a big influence on Holocaust literature. The genre adds more atmosphere to give reader opportunity to feel what happened. Either point of view have the same imortance but in the other way. It shows how it was going on from different attitudes or sides as Holocaust is very serious event.