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Antkind

Antkind

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B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, film-maker, 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 recreate 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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ISBN13: 9780593229156
ISBN10: 0593229150
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Us
Publication Year: 2020
Format: Paperback

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    Hilarious, surreal critique of modern life's chaos.

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    If you're into sharp, satirical humor wrapped in a surreal, Kafkaesque universe, Antkind offers an endlessly inventive ride. Rosenberger Rosenberg's wild journey to reconstruct a lost masterpiece becomes a mirror for our own tangled digital existence, making it a thought-provoking yet hilarious read for those who enjoy wit as a weapon against modern chaos.

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