Antkind: A Novel (Unabridged) Antkind: A Novel (Unabridged)

Antkind: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

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.

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 BOOKS 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 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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
FB
Fred Berman
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
25:42
hr min
RELEASED
2020
August 18
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
800
MB

Customer Reviews

atomaton35 ,

Stop making sens

The way patron saint Kaufman writes from the perspective of one character a loner who finds what could potentially present the literary bones of a screen play so epic in scope he can’t imagine a world without knowing, experiencing such piece of art could actually exist. I’m generalizing and now assuming the praise of Kaufmans discography being part of a near flawless body of work, a part of the cultural lexicon, and these words of praise must affect his ego which then manifest as this the main themes of this masterpiece,

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