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Quiara Vasquez's avatar

Hi, and apologies for the random comment on an 18-month-old post, but I recently read the Lars Iyer book mentioned in this post (picked almost literally at random off the shelves at my local library lol), and am curious if you ever wrote more about it in a way that the Substack search function can't handle lol.

FWIW my take on the novel was "I hope the apocalypse DOES come, just to shut all these miserable losers up" -- but perhaps deeper initiation into the world of Weil would grant me more insight into what the book was going for??

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John Pistelli's avatar

Am ambivalent about Weil, as you probably know, and for the gnostic reason, though I haven't read a lot of her and I do love the Iliad essay. I didn't know that Iyer book existed. I remember him from the radical blog days in the mid-2000s but I never read his fiction back then; he was deep in Bernhard and Blanchot and all that Euro-miserable stuff I could never get into, but My Weil sounds more like something I might read, almost like a grittier Iris Murdoch novel...

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