BUILDING STORIES
By Chris Ware.
《大楼故事》作者:克里斯·韦尔
Ware’s innovative graphic novel deepens and enriches the form by breaking it apart. Packaged in a large box like a board game, the project contains 14 “easily misplaced elements” — pamphlets, books, foldout pages — that together follow the residents of a Chicago triplex (and one anthropomorphized bee) through their ordinary lives. In doing so, it tackles universal themes including art, sex, family and existential loneliness in a way that’s simultaneously playful and profound.
韦尔以分体形式升华并丰富了这部新颖的图画小说。作品是在一个类似棋盘游戏盒子里盛有14个“极易放错的小玩意儿”(包括小册子、书籍以及折叠卡片),这些小玩意儿一起构成了一栋芝加哥大楼(类人化的蜂窝)居民的日常生活。通过这种方式,韦尔寓教于乐地阐述了艺术、性、家庭以及存在主义的孤独等普遍主题。
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING
By Dave Eggers
《国王的全息图》 作者:戴夫·埃格斯
In an empty city in Saudi Arabia, a ¬middle-aged American businessman waits day after day to close the deal he hopes will redeem his forlorn life. Eggers, continuing the worldly outlook that informed his recent books “Zeitoun” and “What Is the What,” spins this spare story — a globalized “Death of a Salesman” — into a tightly controlled parable of America’s international standing and a riff on middle-class decline that approaches Beckett in its absurdist despair.
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