Artie Spiegelman's Maus

Fabula vs. Syuzhet

This is the order in which things happened historically:	This is the order in which we encounter them in reading/viewing the comic:
1910s: Vladek Spiegelman born	1958: Artie abandoned by his friends
1933: Nazis come to power	1970s: Artie visits Vladek, gets him to tell his life story 1933-1945
1934: Vladek meets Anja	The scene switches back and forth between Queens, NY in the 1970s, and Poland during the Nazi occupation
1936: Vladek marries Anja
1938: Son Richieu born
1939: Germany invades Poland, Vladek taken as POW
1944: Vladek and Anja taken to Auschwitz	1970s: Artie learns that Vladek has read his early comic, Prisoner on the Hell Planet, which tells how in
1945: Auschwitz liberated	1968: Anja commits suicide; Artie depressed
1946: Emigration to America	1970s: Artie continues to record father's memoirs
1948: Artie born
1958: Artie abandoned by his friends
1960s: Artie becomes comic artist
1968: Anja commits suicide
1970: Vladek marries Mala
1970s: Artie visits Vladek, gets him to tell his life story