Dogma
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781612190464
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.00

Dogma

A Novel

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15 Mar 2012
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In the sequel to his acclaimed debut, British writer Lars Iyer employs a hilarious combination of highbrow/lowbrow humor to recount the misadventures of an unforgettable comic duo of absurd intellectuals.

A plague of rats, the end of philosophy, the cosmic chicken, and bars that don’t serve Plymouth Gin—is this the Apocalypse or is it just America?
 
“The apocalypse is imminent,” thinks W. He has devoted his life to philosophy, but he is about to be cast out from his beloved university. His friend Lars is no help at all—he’s too busy fighting an infestation of rats in his flat. A drunken lecture tour through the American South proves to be another colossal mistake. In desperation, the two British intellectuals turn to Dogma, a semi-religious code that might yet give meaning to their lives.
 
Part Nietzsche, part Monty Python, part Huckleberry Finn, Dogma is a novel as ridiculous and profound as religion itself. The sequel to the acclaimed novel Spurious, Dogma is the second book in one of the most original literary trilogies since Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable.
  • Published: 15 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781612190464
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.00
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About the author

Lars Iyer

Lars Iyer is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot's Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot's Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and his blog Spurious. He is also a contributor to Britain's leading literary blog, Ready, Steady, Book.

Also by Lars Iyer

My Weil
Nietzsche and the Burbs
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Praise for Dogma

Praise for Spurious
"A tiny marvel of comically repetitive gloomery.... [A] wonderfully monstrous creation."
--Steven Poole, The Guardian
"Viciously funny."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"What could be more fun than laughing at intellectuals? This, Lars Iyer's first book, sprang from his blog, Spurious, which sprang from his career as a philosophy lecturer at Newcastle University. I'm still laughing, and it's days later. But who, exactly, am I laughing at?"
--The Los Angeles Times
Who should buy this book? Intellectuals who face intellectual troubles in their own lives. There's a lot of biting satire about the shortcomings and general foolishness of the so-called life of the mind. This is graduate student wit, which is fearsomely funny.
--The Washington Post