Lars Iyer

In a raucous debut that summons up Britain's fabled Goon Squad comedies, writer and philosopher Lars Iyer tells the story of someone very like himself with a "slightly more successful" friend and their journeys in search of more palatable literary conferences and better gin. One reason for their journeys: the narrator's home is slowly being taken over by a fungus that no one seems to know what to do about. Before it completely swallows his house, the narrator feels compelled to solve some major philosophical questions (such as "Why?") and the meaning of his urge to write, as well as the source of the fungus ... before it is too late. Or, he has to move.

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.

Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma called Uproarious by the New York Times Book Review return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.With philosophy professors being moved to badminton departments and gin in short supply although not short enoughthe two hapless intellectuals embark on a relentless mission. Well, several relentless missions. For one, they must help gear a guerilla philosophy movement conducted outside the academy, perhaps under bridges that will save the study of philosophy after the long intellectual desert known as the early 21st-century.For another, they must save themselves, perhaps by learning to play badminton after all. Gin isnt free, you know.

Segunda entrega de la trilogía sobre al absurdo de la vida contemporánea y la imposibilidad de la vida intelectual en ésta. En esta ocasión, los protagonistas se embarcan en una serie de viajes profesionales, a la par que fundan un nuevo movimiento literario, DOGMA, y se dedican a ejecutar presentaciones bajo las "reglas" del mismo. Todo ello siendo cada vez mas conscientes de que "el fin se acerca".

Cuando el capitalismo salvaje —y sus consecuencias: consumismo desenfrenado, idiotez generalizada, infantilismo mundial, destrucción de la Tierra— ha ganado una partida que le aboca irremediablemente

Combinado literario influenciado por Bernhard, Beckett, Bolaño y Vila-Matas, y salpicado del humor absurdista de los Monty Python, Magma es la primera parte de una obra que ya ha sido calificada en medios británicos y estadounidenses como una de las más brillantes de la década.