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.
Charli Kaufman znakom nam po filmam, no pora priznat: do sih por avtora "Adaptatsii" i "Vechnogo siyaniya chistogo razuma" sderzhivali byudzhet i ogranicheniya predmetnogo mira. V debyutnom romane o neudachlivom kinokritike on sbrasyvaet okovy: povestvovanie prostiraetsya na milliony let vpered i nazad, naseleno vymyshlennymi i podlinnymi zvezdami kino, robotami-klonami Trampa, rassuzhdeniyami o Sokurove i Nolane, BDSM-praktikami i yazvitelnymi kommentariyami k epohe #MeToo. "Muravechestvo" - velichestvennyy i edkiy roman-golovolomka, kotoryy mozhno deshifrovat po modeli T. Pinchona ili D. F. Uollesa, a mozhno nyrnut v nego s golovoy i pokoritsya psihodelicheskoy moschi.
