![]() ![]() ![]() It cares enough to observe human beings closely, both when they are behaving themselves, and when they are engaging in their manifold selfishnesses. "Building Stories "is a masterpiece, above all, because it cares about human beings, many of them women. That they don't, that they can never, is the paradox, and yet what else can we do but try? Here we have the essential question Ware wants us to consider, and his answer brave, beautiful and brilliant is the story we build out of this box. The woman's dream, after all, is everyone's: the dream of making sense of ourselves, of having things add up. In the end, the process Ware recreates here is universal, which is what gives "Building" "Stories" its resonance. This is a great, easily ownable work of art. Less usual, for the genre as a whole, is the vividness with which he limns his heroine s intense, if fairly ordinary, inner life The lack of clear structure, much less traditional linearity, turns reading into an unusually active process. Ware s style is a model of compression in both word and picture. His work is brutal in the way all great art is. It s Ware s ruthless and tender pursuit of undisguised emotion. I also sort of want to kill myself.What makes "Building Stories" monumental isn t its unorthodox format. I have now spent a week in sloppy communion with "Building Stories" and am ready to declare it one of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced. ![]()
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