Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
The debut novel by Oscar®-winning screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman.
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 three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete. Convinced that the film will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core, that it might possibly be the greatest movie ever made, 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 is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the work of art that just might be the last great hope of civilisation. 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 bete noire and his raison d'etre.
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.
Format: Paperback | 720 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.8 | 818g
Publication Date: 12 May 2020
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Penguin Random House
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0593229150
ISBN13: 9780593229156
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks, creasing, and scratching, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal (barely noticeable) creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.