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First edition |
| Descript |
705 pages |
| Note |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Humorous fiction
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Motion pictures -- Fiction
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FICTION / Literary.
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Skönlitteratur
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Litteratur med filmtema
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Filmkritik
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Satire
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Film critics -- Fiction
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Criticism
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Romaner
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Skönlitteratur
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Humor
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Satir
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| Alt Auth |
Kaufman, Charlie, 1958- First edition
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780593229156 paperback |
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0593229150 paperback |
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9780399589706 (electronic book) |
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0399589708 (electronic book) |
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