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The writer Hari Kunzru says “made me feel better about the Apocalypse than I have in ages” is back—with a hilarious coming-of-age love storyThe unruly undergraduates at Cambridge have a nickname for their new lecturer: Wittgenstein Jr. He’s a melancholic, tormented genius who seems determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought.But Peters—a working-class student surprised to find himself among the elite—soon discovers that there’s no place for logic in a Cambridge overrun by posh boys and picnicking tourists, as England’s greatest university is collapsing under market pressures.Such a place calls for a derangement of the senses, best achieved by lethal homemade cocktails consumed on Cambridge rooftops, where Peters joins his fellows as they attempt to forget about the void awaiting them after graduation, challenge one another to think so hard they die, and dream about impressing Wittgenstein Jr with one single, noble thought.And as they scramble to discover what, indeed, they have to gain from the experience, they realize that their teacher is struggling to survive. For Peters, it leads to a surprising turn—and for all of them, a challenge to see how the life of the mind can play out in harsh but hopeful reality.Combining his trademark wit and sharp brilliance, Wittgenstein Jr is Lars Iyer’s most assured and ambitious novel yet—as impressive, inventive and entertaining as it is extraordinarily stirring.
Wittgenstein Jr, by Lars Iyer- Amazon Sales Rank: #588737 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-09-02
- Released on: 2014-09-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review “[Iyer] is a deeply elegiac satirist... He manages to both send up intellectual life and movingly lament its erosion."—New York TimesLonglisted for the Folio Prize“Outstanding... [Iyer] appears to be in the process of creating his own personal genre, one in which the workings of his mind are on display far more brilliantly than anything as piddling as a plot... Almost every individual page is a pleasure, and that is more than enough reason to keep reading him."—Daily Beast“An absolutely exquisite, elegant novel, with a cadence and rhythm all its own."—Emily St. John Mandel's A Year in Reading, The Millions“One of the funniest books of the year, this philosophical bildung shows that intellectuality can be poignant, especially when its couched within a campus novel."—Flavorwire, 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014“Stunning. Wittgenstein Jr. is Iyer’s strongest book to date. He has again managed to write a book that’s funny, unexpected, and profound, and his prose is suffused with a calm beauty."—Emily St. John Mandel, The Millions“It’s a triumph that Iyer pulls off this high-wire act so brilliantly. It’s irreverent, smart, and off-kilter."—John Yargo, The MillionsOne of BuzzFeed's Most Beautiful Book Covers of 2014One of GQ's 8 Books You Need to Know in September“A funny, smart, and somewhat insane campus novel, perfect for anyone’s back-to-school hijinks.”—Flavorwire, 10 Must-Reads for September“Iyer's prose is never any less stark than it can be, building a sharp momentum that brings the boys and their professor to a surprising yet fitting conclusion."—AskMen.com, Recommended Reading for September“Depression, sadness, gloom--these three themes permeate the novel, and the subtle prose conveys them with deftness."—PopMatters“Meanwhile, the novel is in crisis – and I intend that as a compliment. In other words, the books that are asking what a novel might be …[including] Lars Iyer’s Wittgenstein Jr – are by far the best."—Gaby Wood's Best Books of 2014, The Telegraph (UK)“As finely put together as a watch, Wittgenstein Jr is a playful book of ideas by a brilliant man."—Elisabeth Donnelly, The Morning News“Wittgenstein Jr really is very good entertainment -- enjoyable reading, with just the right touch of gravity, good fun, but with a sense of the almost-profound in the shadows."—Complete Review“Iyer’s lyrical novel unfolds like a prose poem, in fragments and scenes, compressed images and emotion, with rhythm and repetition that pull the reader through the novel... It is at turns a novel about England, the university, youth, madness, philosophy, love, which, when summed up, becomes a coming-of-age novel."—Hamlet Hub“Fascinating... A doomy, hilarious, thoughtful Cambridge comedy with a tone somewhere between Philosophical Investigations and Porterhouse Blue, as a bunch of dreadful modern undergrads struggle to make sense of a tragic, saintlike tutor who is not Wittgenstein, or not exactly."—Sunday Telegraph (UK), Best Books of 2014“Superbly done… Iyer wins on laughs.”—the Guardian (UK)One of the Telegraph's Best Novels of the Year!“One of Britain's best new voices."—The Bookseller (UK), Books of the Year“A twitchy philosophy professor arrives at Cambridge on the brink of either total enlightenment or a mental breakdown. His new students, a hapless bunch of over-privileged boozers and junkies, turn up to class to observe their tutor’s rambling, paranoid disintegration. All ends well though, with an unexpected spot of non-theoretical romance.”—Verso (UK), Books of the Year“It isn’t really a novel, or not only a novel. It’s more interesting than that… Iyer has compiled an idiosyncratic – and surprisingly tender – paean to love and learning."—Times Literary Supplement“Wittgenstein Jr is as much a satire on the contemporary academy as it is an existential novel of ideas. But is is also a love story. Ultimately it's a novel about the idea of philosophy, about what Wittgenstein's students call 'the romance of learning' and that all-consuming erotic yearning for knowledge that you sometimes experience as an undergraduate. It is also an elegiac book."—the Telegraph (UK)“Iyer’s work proposes a visibly different sort of British literature to that which dominates the discourse… The author has set an alternative path for himself, producing books you can read in an afternoon but think about for a year.”—the Independent (UK)“Wittgenstein Jr wants thought to ‘tear out our throats’ and his fulminations against ‘English lawn’ dons who facilitate the monetisation of Cambridge provide the angriest, funniest monologues... Right now, Iyer’s novel insists, utopian thought remains an urgent necessity."—New Statesman (UK)“Written in Iyer’s now unmistakable musical prose Wittgenstein Jr provides a wonderful character study of one of the greatest philosophers of modern times, a hilarious take on modern life inside academia, a set of profane t-shirt slogans and a whole lot more besides."—The Quietus“His cartoon of campus life is one of the joys of Iyer's new-found freedom." —Steve Mitchelmore, This Space“Without shortcuts, [Iyer] tries to show not only what is lost in the modern world, but what remains—what his characters retain even through their despair, because of their despair, even if they don’t know it. One might call it hope... Wittgenstein Jr walks a line between cynicism and optimism, between the laughable and the serious...I, for my part, found it hilarious."—The QuietusOne of Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"Iyer already has a reputation for combining brainy dialogue with madcap action, but the triumph of his latest (and best) novel is that the cartoon turns out to have real substance."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"A droll love story... Existential angst is rarely this entertaining."—Kirkus Reviews"With their ingenious blend of philosophical dialogue and vaudevillian verve, Iyer’s trilogy, Spurious, Dogma and Exodus, earned a cult following. Wittgenstein, Jr. compacts Iyer’s concerns into a single campus novel, set at early 21st-century Cambridge. It should serve as an ideal introduction to his work."—The Millions, Most Anticipated Books for the second half of 2014Praise for Lars Iyer’s trilogy:“It’s wonderful. I’d recommend the book for its insults alone.” —Sam Jordison, The Guardian“Uproarious.” —New York Times Book Review“I’m still laughing, and it’s days later.” —Los Angeles Times“Viciously funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle“A tiny marvel . . . [A] wonderfully monstrous creation.” —Steven Poole, The Guardian“This novel has a seductive way of always doubling back on itself, scorching the earth but extracting its own strange brand of laughter from its commitment to despair.” —The Believer
About the Author LARS IYER is the author of two books on Blanchot (Blanchot’s Communism: Art, Philosophy, Politics and Blanchot’s Vigilance: Phenomenology, Literature, Ethics) and the novels Spurious (which was 3:AM Magazine’s Book of the Year in 2011), Dogma, and Exodus. His literary manifesto, “Nude in Your Hot Tub, Facing the Abyss,” appeared in Post Road and The White Review.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Despair not . . . By W. J. TAYLOR Wittgenstein Jr, Lars Iyer Something of a study of a fall into madness, this novel centers around three characters: a Cambridge logic professor jokingly called Wittgenstein Jr; Ede, an aristocratic student; and Peters, a scholarship student and the narrator. At the term’s beginning there are 45 students enrolled in the professor’s class; by the third week an apostolic dozen remain. When discussing why they are hanging on, one student quips that they want to watch the professor’s nervous crack-up. And Wittgenstein Jr does seem on the verge at all moments. His teaching defies logic—his supposed field—to border on the type of mysticism that revels in affirming opposites: “Perhaps it is not a question of belief. Perhaps the concept of God is not a thing in which one can believe or disbelieve.” It very soon comes out that the professor’s older brother, an Oxford mathematician, committed suicide. With that fact, the novel’s tone moves from complete understated comedy and satire into its prime mode, a character study. Not that the humor subsides, for there are grand comic moments: when Ede splits up with his “fated” love appropriately nicknamed Fee, he and Peters make tea of magic mushrooms in hopes of achieving “choking despair . . . chaotic despair . . . the despair of Lucifer . . . annulling despair . . . crawling despairs, like rats, like spiders.” And so on. While there is little plot—and I won’t ruin the climax of that little bit—the work still builds like a novel with the increasing intensity of the dark soul journey that Wittgenstein Jr takes and the efforts his students, especially Ede and Peters, make to rescue his sanity. This is a read that is both funny and moving, and it works even better on the retake. Lots of allusions to Shakespeare and Nietzsche, appropriately. 226 pages.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Funny, brilliant By Robert Garlitz Funny, brilliant, brilliantly hilarious, moving, beautiful. Iyer is the finest legatee in English of Thomas Bernhard--- the bitter humor and the sense of language, the rhythms of speech, the rhythms of thought, the feel for thought, the feel for language, the feel for the divagations of the soul, the wanderings of the heart, the saving warmths of delight and humor, the healing laughter of divine tears.The portrait of the teacher, Wittgenstein Jr, superb as it is, is not quite as superb as the portrait of the students. Herein lies Iyer's genius quintessential. The Kirwin Twins, Ede, Titmuss, Doyle, Mulberry and the quiet, long-suffering Peters, our narrator as it happens, are drawn with such economy and wit, highest wit I tell you, as to rival almost the bard himself. Here are groundlings, high-brow, Oxbridge university level groundlings, of such depth and duncehood as to become paragons for the ages of the students that every teacher has privately railed about for aeons. This bunch are St Augustine's students in Carthage, the very reason he fled Africa and sought better working conditions in the academies of Rome. These bright wastrels are bonded into a brotherhood of brilliance aspirant that Samuel himself would smile to see, to hear, to go drinking with. These dear fellows may be the most heroic group of students ever to grace the pages of literature, heroic pages of literature, servants, are they, to the utter greatness of their calling, to be students of the master himself, WJr.After all of this, Iyer brings the book to as sweet and beautiful and moving a close as you can imagine. Such a magnificent re-telling of life of the mind and heart at the heart of the love of learning.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Confusing tribute to the real Wittgenstein By Alfred J. Kwak Is this a novel? It is easily the book with the most question marks I have ever read. Real novelists use question marks sparingly. Its lay-out resembles a drama script or a book of poetry. Leaving blank space on each page is also rare in real novels. Instead, green novelists like Garcia Marquez (GM) in “Autumn of the Patriarch” and Javier Marias (JM) saved many trees, filling every available space on a page by ignoring the full stop (GM) or as JM does, writing solid blocks of text, rarely indented. Therefore, Lars Iyer (LI)) is neither a novelist nor an eco-friendly author. There is logic ("Logik") for you.This treatise, not a novel, records the (lack of) interaction between a new Cambridge philosophy lecturer, quickly nicknamed Wittgenstein (W) by his rapidly dwindling student audience. Twelve(!) remain, who do not take notes, because W only asks questions. They are not properly lectured or tutored in class or individually in W’s rooms or during their many outdoor walks. W’s students are baffled by his many questions about thought, logic (Logik) and philosophy, with W's questions becoming more desperate as their course progresses.Do they write papers or read for exams? Or is just listening to W’s hundreds of definitions and assertions and counter-assertions about philosophy, his tonnes of rhetorical questions and endless aphorisms, his paranoia about Cambridge dons, his explanations about his brilliant mathematician brother’s suicide at 20, his rants about the Flood that will wipe out Cambridge and of Noah’s Ark landing on a mountain top and much, much else, enough to secure a degree?W’s students remain ignorant about the meaning of logic, pure reason and philosophy. Some rather go for thespian displays, sex, drugs and rock & roll or near-fatal alcoholic mixtures. No one understands or is really interested in W’s lectures and warnings, except Peters, the farm boy student and part narrator... This book (never a novel) exudes supposedly superior knowledge about a giant logician, but is very repetitious and lacks flow. I ignored my key criterion: “What’s on the next page beyond p. 50?” and waded on. Iyer (Ayer was a real philosopher) is a word acrobat who never made me smile or laugh out loud.
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