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).
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
- ^ 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
External links
- Lars Iyer on X
- Personal Blog
