LEADER 00000cam a22006017i 4500 001 zb3kggsswdqr3h5f 008 200929s2020 nyu|||||||||||000 1|eng|d 020 9780593229156|qpaperback 020 0593229150|qpaperback 020 |z9780399589706 (electronic book) 020 |z0399589708 (electronic book) 041 eng 092 0 Roman|bengelska 100 1 Kaufman, Charlie,|d1958-|4aut 245 10 Antkind|ba novel /|cCharlie Kaufman 250 First edition 264 1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2020] 300 705 pages 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 "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 b©®te noire and his raison d'©®tre. 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"-- |cProvided by publisher 600 04 Humorous fiction 600 04 Motion pictures|vFiction 650 4 Satire 650 4 Film critics|vFiction 650 7 FICTION / Literary.|2bisacsh 650 7 Skönlitteratur|2sfit 650 7 Litteratur med filmtema|2sfit 650 7 Filmkritik|2sfit 653 Criticism 655 7 Romaner|2saogf 655 7 Skönlitteratur|2saogf 655 7 Humor|2saogf 655 7 Satir|2saogf 710 2 Kaufman, Charlie, 1958-|dFirst edition
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