都市的孤独——评克里斯·威尔的《小楼春秋》

Urban Loneliness--Review of "Small Building Spring" By Chris o Will

《小楼春秋》中,克里斯·威尔一方面用他一贯鲜明的色彩和现实主义的风格,细腻地刻画出芝加哥一幢老居民楼里的三家住户孤独的生活,反映了美国社会的精神状态和生存方式,另一方面,该作品形式新颖,与一般装订成册的书籍不同,它是一个包括海报、报纸、翻页书、小册子等在内的14种不同装订格式的盒子,读者可以随意翻看,没有固定的阅读顺序,随着阅读的展开,读者能够主动参与到故事重构中去。

In "Small Building Spring",on the one hand Chris o Will described lonely life of three tenants in an old building in Chicago,and with his usual bright colors and realistic style,reflecting mental state of American society and way of life.On the other hand,the book's new style is different from other books binding in volumes in the form of the novel,and the general binding different volumes of books,it is a box including 14 kinds of different binding formats,such as posters,newspapers,flip books,brochures,etc.Readers are free to read,because there is no fixed reading order.Along with the reading,the readers can actively participate in the reconstruction of the story.