Between ‘How to Be John Malkovich’ and ‘World Ant’ is Charlie Kaufman

VALENCIA.From good to first it is possible that the name of Charlie Kaufman (New York, 1958) does not say anything.The thing changes when the movies like being John Malkovich (1999), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (1999) or Adaptation (2002), of which he was a screenwriter.Three of Kaufman's scripts appear on the Writers Guild of America list of the 101 best film scripts ever written.The screenwriter began his career among the hardships he means writing for television programs that died in the first season.In a state of labor misery he wrote how John Malkovich was the script landed in the office of director Spike Jonze and from there to what we all know: Spike Jonze's first feature film was a success and he took several nominations for the Oscars.

Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015) and I'M Thinking of Ending Things, released in 2020 on the Netflix platform are the films in which Kaufman has served as director, in addition to screenwriter and producer.In that last year, 2020, this Hollywood being also had time to edit with Random House its first novel: Antkind, a volume of 944 pages that in Spain edited last year the independent editorial Barrett, translated its title by world ant.

CE Santiago translates this extensive volume that has the illustration on the cover of Isidro Ferrer.In Barrett's words, this editorial bombing is "a scathing complaint of the modern world and a reflection on art, time, memory, identity, comedy and the nature of existence itself".

In the synopsis we read that "B.Rosenberg, critic of neurotic and undervalued film (failed academic, filmmaker, lover, shoes seller who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles with a movie so far unpublished by an enigmatic outsider, a movie that is convincedThe trajectory of his career and shake the world of cinema to his foundations.When it comes to his hands that is possibly the best film ever made-a three-month stop-motion masterpiece that his inmate author took ninety years to complete-B.He knows that his mission is to show her to the rest of humanity.The only problem is that the film has been destroyed, leaving him as the only witness of his inadvertently ephemeral genius.Everything that remains of this work of art is a single frame from which B.You should try to remember in some way the film that could be the last great hope of civilization ".

1266 grams of novel that Barrett edited because “sometimes we do things crazy.Zacharias saw that the novel had been published in the United States and was an arrow, a expensive arrow, yes, but after all a love at first sight.We economically value the project and it really was crazy, but we like to live on the edge of ruin ”.

Walking through a gorge with bandaged eyes while non -payment notifications are also familiar to Kaufman.In an interview with The Guardian the director declared that his films do not give money: “In 2008 the first movie I directed, Synecdoche, New York, and lost money.At that time the film industry, casually, collapsed due to the economic crisis, and the studies stopped making films and began to make superhero franchises.The type of average budget movie I have been working on, there was no way out for it.It simply did not exist ".In world ant can appreciate how Kaufman channels its frustrations regarding the world of cinema and TV.“Kaufman has always been very critical of the world of cinema and TV, even with himself.In the novel, this leads to the extreme, since the protagonist is an arrogant critic, who hates Charlie Kaufman and is obsessed with getting attention in Hollywood.World ant is that, it does not leave a puppet with a head.

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Is there hope of purchase and sale for so extensive books?“Hope is the last thing that is lost, but finally is lost (laughs).There is too much pessimism in Barrett, but sometimes these things happen.It is the fattest book of our catalog, but it is clear is that discovering what happens in Charlie Kaufman's mind on a hundred pages is really impossible.For cinema lovers is a gift, an explosion in the eyes, the brain ”.

In the novel we find the usual features that characterize Charlie Kaufman's scripts and movies."Metaliterature, meta -stake, metameta...Kaufman seeks and search within the mind with a recognizable sense of humor in all his films.We do not know if Charlie will dare to take these 900 pages to the cinema, but we see it clearly ”.

Despite the extensive of the volume, Kaufman shows his mastery with the dialogue to accelerate the reading rate and make the reader captive.The hurried conversations of the characters are plagued by cultural and social allusions.A translation challenge.“Ce Santiago has finished neurons, thankfully he lives in a little house in Asturias and goes fishing to clear.It has been a really demanding translation with many references, jokes and phrases with double very complex senses to translate, but the result is incredible ”.

One more obstacle: Charlie Kaufman does not know that Antkind is an ant world, so to speak.Sevillian author and publishing house have not had contact.When we were mocking the book we asked his agency for a photo of Kaufman for the biography and told us that "Charlie Kaufman does not allow her image to be used in any publication, continue without the photo", and that we did, we put a non -photo of Kaufman and theAgency text on top.In Barrett we like the presentations of absurd books, so we take this to the extreme, we invite no Kaufman to the Seville Film Festival, we put a chair to sit next to us, we reserve a place to eat with him in the canteenFrom the fair street market and we show you the escape, our favorite bookstore in Seville.Finally we took a picture all together, but he wanted to go out on his back.

On page 742 world ant we read that the storytel."We would like to ask him: Charlie, is it true that they say that you will come this year to Spain with all expenses paid by Editorial Barrett?".