Lars Iyer
Autor/a de Spurious
Sobre l'autor
Lars Iyer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Sèrie
Obres de Lars Iyer
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1970-05-02
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Professions
- Reader in Creative Writing and Subject Head of Creative Writing, Newcastle University
philosophy professor, the European Graduate School
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 500
- Popularitat
- #49,493
- Valoració
- 3.2
- Ressenyes
- 29
- ISBN
- 24
- Llengües
- 2
- Preferit
- 2
Again we have the philosophy professor, and students this time, vainly searching for Thought, or, since they know themselves incapable of it, for a Leader capable of Thought to which to attach themselves. And we have the insults, Iyer's greatest gift. I imagine all of Iyer's real-life students getting all squirmy reading this. Is he serious? Is he having us on? You'd suspect the latter, I would think, but be unable to disprove the former to your complete satisfaction.
The insults and humor are fine, but I do find that they get stretched rather thin in an Iyer novel. For me. Something like having two minutes of interesting and exciting music bulked up with uninteresting filler to make a six minute song.
-- In-Reading Passage Noted --
The eye is only distracted by beauty. It is only deceived by beauty. Because the old alliance between beauty and goodness has long been broken, and the treaty between beauty and truth was torn up some time ago.… (més)