Interview with Lars Iyer This is a full-length version of a written interview conducted by Lisa Akhila Plakolm and Juliane Werner of the GlobalBernhard project team, based in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna. A shortened version of the interview was published in a book to accompany the exhibition ‘Thomas Bernhard Today’ at Continue reading "Bernhard’s…
Steve Mitchelmore responds to my recent interviews at This Space.
Nietzsche and the Burbs now out in Turkish. There s a video.
Part one and part two of interviews for the European Graduate School podcast now available.
Economic anxiety came suddenly upon me and all too close … then suddenly confusion [war and revolution] broke loose … I produced more powerfully than ever, but more than ever like a dying man. In the direction of Christianity it is the highest yet accorded me, that is certain. But in another sense it is Continue reading ""
Review of Nietzsche and the Burbs from the Sunday Times, 5th January 2020: A rock-music caper loaded with adolescent yearning. Houman Barekat Lars Iyer is not one for changing the record. Between 2011 and 2014 he published three short, satirical novels inspired by his time as a philosophy lecturer. The Spurious trilogy affectionately skewered the Continue reading ""
Deep uni posturing (Times Literary Supplement) Simone Weil comes to Manchester in Lars Iyer’s latest campus novel By Harry Strawson The new field of “Disaster Studies” is booming in Lars Iyer’s sixth novel, My Weil. It is a product of the philosophy department at Manchester’s fictional “All Saints Uni”, which, as police helicopters patrol the increasingly dysfunctional Continue reading ""
[This written interview was the basis of an interview/ profile in The Morning Star in 2023. Here it is in full:] You’re one of the few contemporary writers who can make me laugh on the 0630 bus. From your perspective, what’s the attraction of a comic approach and where is the humour coming from? Is Continue reading ""
I hope Spurious can be enjoyed by a reader entirely unfamiliar with the names and ideas mentioned in its pages. In large measure, I think, it is the way W. and Lars enthuse about a scholarly project or a specific thinker that makes the novel entertaining (if indeed it is entertaining). On the other hand, Continue reading "An A to Z of Spurious (2011)"