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Lars Iyer and David Winters in conversation: Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, 30th October

If you’re in (or near!) Cambridge on 30th October, do come along to Heffers Bookshop and see Lars Iyer discuss his new novel, Wittgenstein Jr.,  with 3:AM’s co-editor in chief, David Winters. Tickets for the event can be bought here. More info from Heffers:

Lars Iyer, in conversation with literary critic David Winters, will discuss Lars’ latest novel  Wittgenstein Jr,  which  concerns the academic career of a group of Cambridge philosophy students, deeply under the influence of their supervisor,  whom they nickname Wittgenstein Jr.

Wittgenstein Jr’s austere, exacting philosophy provides a tragicomic counterpoint to the chemical excesses of a student life that takes place in Cambridge locations that will having Cambridge inhabitants laughing out loud in recognition: the college backs, the Maypole, the Copper Kettle, the weekend tourists on King’s Parade…With the wit and linguistic playfulness of Evelyn Waugh and the experimentation of Beckett, the  novel  moves towards an unexpectedly hopeful and touching conclusion.

“Iyer is an author who rejects the parochialism and  timidity we often associate with British novelists in favour of an ugly grapple  with the big  themes” —The Spectator

“Lars  Iyer…has been redefining the existential anti-hero  for several years  now, combining fiction and philosophy  with  great wit and invention.” —TLS

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