Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE - A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . . propelled by Kaufman's deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull's-eye wit.--The Washington Post

An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . . an exceptionally good book].--The New York Times Book Review - Kaufman is a master of language . . . a sight to behold.--NPR

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN'S HEALTH

B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider--a film he's convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made--a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete--B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius.

All that's left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of likes and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his b te noire and his raison d' tre.

A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself--the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN is the writer of the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Human Nature (2001), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), Adaptation (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Synecdoche (2008). Initially coming from a background in theater and film, Kaufman has also had a successful run as a TV writer, working on such shows as Get a Life and The Dana Carvey Show. He lives in California with his family.

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ISBN 13	9780399589683
ISBN 10	0399589686
Title	Antkind
Author	Charlie Kaufman
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-07-07
Number of pages	720
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