Antkind:
A Novel
by Charlie Kaufman
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The
bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter
of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and
Synecdoche, New York.
“A
terrific debut novel that makes Gravity’s Rainbow read like a Dr. Seuss story .
. . a masterwork of postmodern storytelling.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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 bête noire and his raison d’être.
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.
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