Lars Iyer
Lars Iyer | |
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| Born | 2 May 1970 (age 54) London United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer, philosopher |
| Nationality | British (Indian-Danish) |
| Period | 2011 - present |
| Genre | Philosophy |
| Subject | Maurice Blanchot, philosophy |
| Notable works | Spurious, Dogma, Exodus, Wittgenstein Jr., Nietzsche and the Burbs, My Weil |
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).
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]
Life
[edit]Lars Iyer was brought up in southeast England, in Wokingham, where he returned after completing his undergraduate degree at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1993. Despite being religiously unaffiliated, Iyer spent seven years living among monks in Patmos, Greece.
Works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ "Lars Iyer". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ 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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