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The quest for seriousness, trammeled by idiocy: philosopher-novelist Lars Iyer
The quest for seriousness, trammeled by idiocy: philosopher-novelist Lars Iyer
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Mar 21, 2011
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Podcast episode
Description
Colin Marshall talks to novelist and philosopher Lars Iyer, author the blog Spurious and the new novel Spurious. In both the blog and the book, the philosophers Lars and W. discuss their favorite artists and writers — Franz Kafka, Andrei Tarkovsky, Maurice Blanchot, Béla Tarr — and what they see as their own pathetic inability to live up to their collective example. As Lars deals with a dampness problem ever encroaching on his apartment, W. berates him with a seemingly endless series of insults that takes friendly verbal abuse to a high art form.
Released:
Mar 21, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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