Antkind: A Novel / A Novel
Charlie Kaufman
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- Author
- Charlie Kaufman
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- ISBN
- 9780008319502
- Language
- English
- Condition notes
- 2020, 720pp, paperback, in mint condition
- Category
- Detectives
About this book
The daring and boundlessly original debut novel by the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of *Being John Malkovich*, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* and *Synecdoche, New York*. ‘Wildly funny’ – *New York Times* ‘Just as mad and clever as his films’ – *Washington Post* B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, a neurotic and underrated film critic (a failed academic, filmmaker, lover, and shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a previously unknown film by an enigmatic outsider – a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece on which the reclusive filmmaker has spent ninety years. Convinced that the film will give his career a new direction and shake the film world to its core, and that it might well be the best film ever made, B. knows that it is his mission to show the film to the rest of humanity. The only problem is that the film has been destroyed, leaving him as the sole witness to its unintentionally fleeting genius. All that remains is a single frame, from which B. must somehow try to recall the work of art that may well be civilisation’s last great hope. Thus begins a bewildering journey through the hilarious nightmare landscape of a psyche that is as richly Kafkaesque as it is weakened by the relentless flow of Twitter. Desperately seeking order in an existence that grows ever more absurd, trapped in a self-imposed prison of ambitious victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. rushes to recreate the lost masterpiece, whilst trying to keep pace with an ever-more-fragmented culture of ‘likes’ and arbitrary judgements that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être. *Antkind* is a scathing indictment of the modern world and a richly layered reflection on art, time, memory, identity, comedy and the very nature of existence itself – the grain of truth hidden within every joke.
