Lars Iyer

Lars Iyer
Lars Iyer
Born	2 May 1970 (age 53); London United Kingdom
Occupation	Novelist, writer, philosopher
Nationality	British (Indian-Danish)
Period	2011 - August 29, 2023
Genre	Philosophy
Subject	Maurice Blanchot, philosophy
Notable works	Spurious, Dogma, Exodus, Wittgenstein Jr., Nietzsche and the Burbs, My Weil

Lars Iyer is a British

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 (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