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Lars Iyer's Blog
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2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/31/all-the-things-that-i-see-hear-breathe-touch-eat-all-the-beings-i-meet-i-deprive-the-sum-total-of-all-that-of-contac/original ↗
31 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/25/in-this-way-company-foregrounds-equally-the-two-dimensions-of-becketts-writing-which-make-up-the-paradox-i-would-like-to/original ↗
25 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/16/wittgenstein-jr-reviewed-by-elizabeth-donnelly-and-commented-upon-by-kevin-guilfoile-and-john-warneras-part-of-the-the-mornin/original ↗
16 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/16/what-does-it-mean-to-conceive-of-education-as-the-mastery-of-the-relationship-between-generations-and-not-as-the-mastery-of-t/original ↗
16 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/16/my-life-my-life-now-i-speak-of-it-as-something-over-now-as-of-a-joke-which-still-goes-on-and-it-is-neither-for-at-the-sa/original ↗
16 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/16/politicians-used-to-have-the-confidence-to-tell-us-stories-that-made-sense-of-the-chaos-of-world-events-but-now-there-are-n/original ↗
16 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/03/10/excerpts-frompieter-vermeulencontemporary-literature-and-the-end-of-the-novelpalgrave-macmillan-2015-lars-iyer-toward-f/original ↗
10 Mar 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/26/to-get-back-to-how-i-go-about-writing-my-books-id-say-that-its-a-question-of-rhythm-and-has-a-lot-to-do-with-music-in/original ↗
26 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/26/sometimes-in-april-there-are-limpid-mornings-with-a-gentle-very-fragile-grace-it-seems-as-if-the-universe-has-just-been/original ↗
26 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/26/neil-stewart-reviewswittgenstein-jr-at-the-salt-house-i-like-this-little-post-on-absolute-write-water-cooler/original ↗
26 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/23/all-i-do-is-lose-my-way-but-i-have-a-chance-to-find-myself-again-if-i-keep-retracing-my-footsteps-instead-of-taking-the-fir/original ↗
23 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/23/i-often-have-insomnia-i-open-my-eyes-in-the-shadows-but-these-shadows-are-like-a-different-kind-of-clarity-a-negative-ligh/original ↗
23 Feb 2015
18 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/18/most-gamblers-are-bad-players-who-want-to-control-chance-they-throw-the-dice-and-only-affirm-the-outcome-that-they-like-if/original ↗
18 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/18/to-write-is-perhaps-to-select-the-whispering-voices-to-gather-the-tribes-and-secret-idioms-from-which-i-extract-somethin/original ↗
18 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/18/artaud-knows-that-thinking-is-not-innate-but-must-be-engendered-in-thought-he-knows-that-the-problem-is-not-to-direct-or/original ↗
18 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/18/each-one-risked-something-and-went-as-far-as-possible-in-taking-this-risk-each-one-drew-from-it-an-irrepressible-right-what/original ↗
18 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/09/i-have-a-kind-of-personal-woe-i-should-like-your-advice-on-i-have-noticed-in-the-last-two-or-three-years-a-growing-tendency/original ↗
9 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/02/02/august-19-1960-my-dear-good-nelly-thanks-heartfelt-thanks-for-your-letter-you-are-still-in-such-distress-and-you-find/original ↗
2 Feb 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/30/you-studied-law-but-all-your-philosophy-seeks-in-a-sense-to-free-itself-from-lawleaving-secondary-school-i-had-just-one/original ↗
30 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/27/with-very-few-exceptions-there-are-no-longer-any-philosophers-there-are-extremely-erudite-commentators-and-very-knowledgeab/original ↗
27 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/27/the-ancient-greeks-hoped-for-nothing-nothing-nothing-and-in-my-opinion-that-is-why-they-were-so-free-in-their-creation/original ↗
27 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/26/there-is-really-something-quite-mad-about-speaking-and-writing-the-proper-conversation-is-a-mere-play-on-words-one-can-only/original ↗
26 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/22/were-the-children-of-dionysus-floating-by-in-a-barrel-accepting-nobodys-authority-were-on-the-side-of-those-who-dont-o/original ↗
22 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/22/drugs-are-a-medium-for-overcoming-cultural-mediation-in-order-to-reach-immediate-experience-drugs-arethe-mediation-of-the-im/original ↗
22 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/22/mass-society-that-which-entertains-itself-is-characterized-precisely-by-its-lack-of-memory-by-its-incapacity-to-digest-tha/original ↗
22 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/21/mckenzie-of-a-girl-with-red-hairposts-on-wittgenstein-jr-sam-cooper-has-writtenan-essay-the-novel-after-its-abandonment/original ↗
21 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/20/what-is-to-come-will-emerge-only-after-long-suffering-long-silence-consider-this-point-carefully-nowadays-suicide-is-jus/original ↗
20 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/20/drew-broussard-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-at-tnbbcs-the-next-best-book-blog-its-also-reviewed-by-rebecca-stuhr-at-favourite-bo/original ↗
20 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/19/literature-must-have-a-religious-dimension-if-it-is-really-to-be-literature-at-all-an-unmetaphysical-poem-is-artistically-sp/original ↗
19 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/19/what-you-say-about-our-artificially-prolonged-childhood-about-immaturity-bewilders-me-somewhat-rather-it-seems-to-m/original ↗
19 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/15/melancholy-the-contemplation-of-the-movement-of-misfortune-has-nothing-in-common-with-the-wish-to-die-it-is-a-form-of-resi/original ↗
15 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/14/podcast-of-ray-monk-and-i-discussing-wittgenstein-jr-at-the-london-review-bookshop-last-august/original ↗
14 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/14/the-true-fight-against-oneself-is-against-ones-heaviness-ones-gravity-susan-sontag-writing-on-bresson/original ↗
14 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/steven-schwarzschild-ethics-means-to-have-an-alternative-to-reality/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/the-etymological-root-of-the-english-happiness-is-the-middle-english-hap-which-means-luck-fortune-or-chance-a-happy/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/living-cheaply-the-cheapest-and-most-inoffensive-way-of-living-is-that-of-the-thinker-for-to-get-at-once-to-the-main-poi/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/bad-books-a-book-ought-to-long-for-pen-ink-and-writing-desk-but-as-a-rule-pen-ink-and-writing-desk-long-for-a-book-tha/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/art-dangerous-to-the-artist-when-art-seizes-violently-on-an-individual-it-draws-him-back-to-the-conceptions-of-those-ages-i/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/belief-in-inspiration-artists-have-an-interest-in-the-existence-of-a-belief-in-the-sudden-occurrence-of-ideas-in-so-calle/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/13/as-a-child-i-once-fell-ill-from-fear-and-hunger-id-pick-hard-skin-from-my-lips-and-lick-them-i-still-remember-the-cool/original ↗
13 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/08/koen-schouwenburg-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-in-tzum-in-dutch/original ↗
8 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/08/wittgenstein-jr-shortlisted-by-the-morning-news-for-its-grand-tournament-of-books/original ↗
8 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/08/abu-nuwas-asked-khalaf-for-permission-to-compose-poetry-and-khalaf-said-i-refuse-to-let-you-make-a-poem-until-you-memo/original ↗
8 Jan 2015
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2015/01/07/wittgenstein-jr-mentioned-by-stephen-mitchelmore-in-his-year-in-reading-overview/original ↗
7 Jan 2015
2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/12/15/wittgenstein-jr-on-the-long-longlist-of-the-folio-prize/original ↗
15 Dec 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/12/15/heres-some-footage-of-me-reading-from-wittgenstein-jr-at-the-newcastle-centre-for-literary-arts-on-november-6th-this-year/original ↗
15 Dec 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/12/15/simon-armstrongpickswittgenstein-jras-one-of-his-best-reading-on-the-way-to-work-books-of-2014/original ↗
15 Dec 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/12/10/emily-st-john-mandel-picks-wittgenstein-jr-as-one-of-her-books-of-the-year-at-the-millions-truth-tableaux-feature-wittgenst/original ↗
10 Dec 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/12/01/william-duffus-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-at-open-letters-monthly/original ↗
1 Dec 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/25/laish-record-a-tribute-to-w-and-lars-vague-and-full-of-pathos-listen-to-ithere/original ↗
25 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/25/emily-st-john-mandel-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-at-the-millions/original ↗
25 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/24/wittgenstein-jra-book-of-the-year-at-the-daily-telegraph-and-of-one-the-best-indie-books-of-the-year-at-flavorwire/original ↗
24 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/24/heres-a-video-of-a-reading-i-did-last-year-for-the-newcastle-centre-for-the-literary-arts/original ↗
24 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/21/in-bolano-literature-is-a-helpless-undignified-and-not-especially-pleasant-compulsion-like-smoking-at-one-point-you-star/original ↗
21 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/17/mark-sarvas-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-at-barnes-and-noble-review/original ↗
17 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/17/it-can-be-said-that-any-art-is-avant-garde-is-it-permits-thereconstruction-of-the-real-life-circumstances-from-which-it-emerg/original ↗
17 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/17/the-material-of-experience-is-not-the-material-of-expression-and-i-think-the-distress-you-feel-as-a-writer-comes-from-a/original ↗
17 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/17/we-tend-to-think-that-student-debt-was-a-problem-only-since-the-economic-problems-of-2008-and-occupy-but-it-arose-with-dereg/original ↗
17 Nov 2014
13 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/13/people-know-what-they-want-because-they-know-what-other-people-want-there-is-no-right-life-in-the-wrong-one-one-must-have/original ↗
13 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/11/13/we-have-been-corrupted-by-novels-for-through-them-the-sacred-has-ceased-to-be-sacred-while-the-purest-most-human-most-inn/original ↗
13 Nov 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/17/wittgensteins-walks-ben-eastham-protesting-altogether-too-much-lars-iyers-fourth-book-carries-the-subtitle-a-novel-reader/original ↗
17 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/16/doctor-how-nice-of-you-harmlessness-no-longer-exists-the-small-pleasures-the-expressions-of-life-that-appear-exempt-from/original ↗
16 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/16/to-posterity-truly-i-live-in-dark-times-the-innocent-word-is-stupid-a-smooth-forehead-is-a-sign-of-insensitivity-he-who/original ↗
16 Oct 2014
15 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/15/your-madness-has-broken-out-and-you-use-it-as-a-toy-of-destruction-you-change-what-lies-behind-other-peoples-ramparts-it-re/original ↗
15 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/15/duras-has-always-maintained-this-link-with-god-indulging-in-the-ambiguity-and-the-nostalgia-that-she-voices-in-all-her-books/original ↗
15 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/15/here-i-am-speaking-on-two-book-minimum-a-podcast-from-cave-comedy-radiowith-alison-lieby-dan-wilbur-and-marcus-parks/original ↗
15 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/13/now-she-can-go-around-in-circles-in-her-books-she-has-put-into-place-a-sufficient-number-of-motifs-reverberating-among-one/original ↗
13 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/10/philippeau-peace-is-in-god-danton-in-nothingness-what-offers-mroe-peace-more-oblivion-than-nothingness-and-if-ultimat/original ↗
10 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/09/im-fortunate-enough-to-not-have-instilled-in-me-an-aversion-to-christianity-and-to-christian-terms-and-concepts-its-s/original ↗
9 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/09/my-general-argument-is-that-the-traditional-leftist-narrative-which-was-quite-serviceable-in-its-day-as-a-critique-of-educat/original ↗
9 Oct 2014
9 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/08/a-saying-from-the-zohar-on-the-sixth-day-having-created-man-god-said-to-him-i-have-worked-heretofore-now-you-shall-conti/original ↗
8 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/08/jacob-knowles-smith-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-for-the-literateur/original ↗
8 Oct 2014
6 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/06/randy-metcalfe-reviewswittgenstein-jrattransformative-explications/original ↗
6 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/03/apiece-i-wroteon-music-andwittgenstein-jrforlargehearted-boy/original ↗
3 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/10/03/ill-be-discussingwittgenstein-jrin-cambridge-on-30th-october-at-heffers-bookshop-from-630-to-800-ticketshere-ill-be-doi/original ↗
3 Oct 2014
1 Oct 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/29/anna-aslanyan-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-in-the-independent/original ↗
29 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/25/many-attempted-in-vain-to-say-the-most-joyful-things-joyfully-here-finally-they-are-expressed-in-mourning-hoelderlin/original ↗
25 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/25/john-williams-reviews-wittgenstein-jr-for-the-new-york-times/original ↗
25 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/24/galley-beggars-have-reissued-denton-welchs-a-voice-through-a-cloud-as-a-digital-classic-with-my-introduction/original ↗
24 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/23/brief-review-of-wittgenstein-jr-as-one-of-8-books-you-need-to-know-in-gq/original ↗
23 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/23/you-ask-what-i-mean-by-the-nothingness-of-revelation-i-understand-by-it-a-state-in-which-revelation-appears-to-be-without-me/original ↗
23 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/23/surely-one-of-the-things-that-make-it-so-difficult-to-write-about-sebald-to-say-anything-genuinely-new-or-revelatory-about-h/original ↗
23 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/23/melancholy-the-contemplation-of-the-movement-of-misfortune-has-nothing-in-common-with-the-wish-to-die-it-is-a-form-of/original ↗
23 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/23/i-am-learning-to-see-i-dont-know-why-it-is-but-everything-enters-me-more-deeply-and-doesnt-stop-where-it-once-used-to-i-ha/original ↗
23 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/22/will-reess-extremely-interesting-review-ofwittgenstein-jr-for-the-quietus/original ↗
22 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/22/sitting-before-my-little-fire-i-know-when-the-wind-blows-outside-moaning-in-the-fieldstone-chimmney-i-caused-to-be-built-f/original ↗
22 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/19/wittgenstein-jr-now-in-this-best-novel-and-fiction-list-in-the-daily-telegraph/original ↗
19 Sept 2014
https://larsiyer.co.uk/2014/09/19/nietzsche-never-seemed-to-lose-sight-of-his-own-condition-hesimulated-dionysus-or-the-crucified-and-took-a-certain-delight-i/original ↗
19 Sept 2014