The brilliant screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine and Being John Malkovich just wrote his first book. It’s a mess.
also has flashes of wit and even beauty, often just at the point when the reader has started to wonder if Kaufman wants her to suffer as much as the benighted B. The novel’s premise has B traveling to St. Augustine, Florida, to research an obscure silent film about a gender-bending couple.
These gags are funny once, perhaps twice, but Kaufman keeps making them over and over again until they arrive like a kind of blow. Maybeis the joke, the inherent cruelty in comedy , exposed by turning humor into a form of punishment—not just on the character but on the reader. Maybe! All I can tell you for sure, though, is that it gets to be some pretty heavy sledding.
This could be a shrewd observation of just how easily, and therefore superficially, these attitudes can be adopted, but that sort of obedience to social pressure seems out of character for B. And, in fact, he also proclaims, “A genius must sometimes be a racist if we are to hope for elucidation. History is generously peppered with geniuses who despised the Jews, who dismissed the blacks, who objectified women.
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