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Antkind: A Novel (Paperback)
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Antkind: A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R241
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The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar
(R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. 'Riotously funny'
New York Times 'Just as loopy and clever as his movies' Washington
Post 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
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
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.
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