[Jandek] new Jandek related novel

[Lars Iyer]

List members might be interested in my new novel, Dogma, out today, in
which the characters spend quite a lot of time listening to and discussing
Jandek (as well as the apocalypse and other things).

Amazon UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogma-Lars-Iyer/dp/1612190464/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326213455&sr=1-1
Amazon USA:
http://www.amazon.com/Dogma-Lars-Iyer/dp/1612190464/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326213390&sr=1-1


I'll be launching Dogma in London tomorrow (22nd Feb) at 7.00 at The
Wapping Project bookshop on, Bankside:
http://thewappingprojectbankside.com/

... And I'll be in New York and Boston for a series of
readings/discussions, detailed here:

http://spurious.typepad.com/spurious/2012/02/uk-newcastle-21st-feb-blackwells-by-the-university-600pm-london-22nd-feb-with-sam-jordison-wapping-project-700pm.html

Here's a review:

*Dogma <http://mhpbooks.com/books/dogma/>* by Lars Iyer
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication Date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-1612190464
Paperback, $14.95

The United Kingdom has a Thomas Bernhard, and his name is Lars Iyer.*Dogma* is
the second novel in a trilogy that began with Iyer’s first novel Spurious.
It is the story of two Kafka-obsessed windbag British intellectuals, W. and
Lars, on a mission to devise and hawk an odd, spartan meta-philosophy they
call Dogma. W. is a hardheaded and hyperbolic Jewish professor who spends
much of his time devising eloquent ways to insult his colleague Lars, a
slovenly and depressed Danish Hindu with an inexplicable obsession with the
mysterious Texas blues musician Jandek. The two are unabashedly
referential, pulling inspiration from (and speaking constantly of) numerous
avant-garde artists and directors: Dogma is a reference to filmmaker Lars
Von Trier’s manifesto *Dogme95*. W. seems to be constantly projecting
Werner Herzog’s film *Strozsek* on a wall in his house. They quote
Bataille, Pascal, Leibniz, Rosenzweig, and Cohen. *Dogma* is hilarious and
bleak and loaded with illuminating, brilliant passages, and Iyer’s
rapid-fire staccato prose is well-suited to the task. For those who like
their dark, difficult books to be funny.
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