Wittgenstein Jr. - Couverture souple

Iyer, Lars

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0992876559 ISBN 13 : 9780992876555

Editeur : Melville House UK, 2015

Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2015

NOMINATED FOR THE 2015 FOLIO PRIZE

An accessible, romantic novel from the critically-acclaimed, Goldsmiths Prize-nominated author Lars Iyer.

Lars Iyer returns with his most accessible novel yet - the story of a group of Cambridge students, and the university professor who teaches and inspires them. Wittgenstein Jr. is the nickname Peters and his gang of fellow Philosophy undergrads give to their lecturer, a brooding, complicated, melancholic academic who is determined to make them grasp the very essence of philosophical thought. But the students are too busy getting drunk on lethal homemade cocktails, falling in and out of love and coming to terms with the life waiting for them after Cambridge.

As Wittgenstein Jr. becomes more withdrawn and depressive, the students come to realise just how much he needs them - and just how much he means to them. And it is Peters, the novel's narrator, who realises this in the most surprising and urgent way. In WITTGENSTEIN JR. Iyer delivers a campus novel that is as funny as it is eloquent and searching, and a love story that moves while it surprises.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lars Iyer is a Professor in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, where he was formerly a longtime lecturer in philosophy. He is the author of the novels in the Spurious Trilogy, and more recently, the widely acclaimed Wittgenstein Jr., and Nietzsche and the Burbs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melville House UK
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0992876559
• ISBN 13: 9780992876555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible