Antkind : a novel / Charlie Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Charlie, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film critics--Fiction.

Motion pictures--Fiction.

Motion pictures.

Film critics.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Satirical literature.

Satire.

Physical Description:

705 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Ant kind

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2020]

Summary:

"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 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Kaufman, Charlie, 1958- Antkind

ISBN:

9780399589683

0399589686

OCLC:

1120984857