Lars_Iyer

Lars Iyer

Lars Iyer

British novelist and philosopher

Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher of Indian/Danish parentage. He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012), and Exodus (2013), all published by Melville House.[1] Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award (Spurious, 2011) and the Goldsmiths Prize (Exodus, 2013). He has also written and published two nonfiction books about Maurice Blanchot,[2] Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy and the Political (2004) and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2005).

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Iyer is a lecturer in creative writing at Newcastle University.[3] He was previously a lecturer in philosophy.

Iyer has published, in The White Review, "a literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos".[4]

Works

Fiction
  • Spurious (2011, [Melville House)
  • Dogma (2012, Melville House)
  • Exodus (2013, Melville House)
  • Wittgenstein Jr (2014, Melville House)
  • Nietzsche and the Burbs (2019, Melville House)
  • My Weil (2023, Melville House)
Non-Fiction
  • Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy, and the Political (2004, Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Blanchot's Vigilance: Literature, Phenomenology and the Ethical (2004, Palgrave Macmillan)

References

  1. [1]
    Williams, John (27 February 2013). "Newly Released Books 'The Next Time You See Me,' by Holly Goddard Jones, and More". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. [4]
    Lars Iyer, Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss (A literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos), The White Review, November 2011


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