Lars Iyer on Literature's Antagonistic Couples

Lars Iyer picks his favourite literary 'frenemies'

Ian McKellen and Roger Rees as Estragon and Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Photo by Sasha Gusov

Lars Iyer, author of Spurious, Dogma and two books on Maurice Blanchot, names his favourite literary 'frenemies'. He choice picks a number of classic antagonistic couples from the works of Samuel Beckett, Cervantes, Thomas Bernhard, D. H. Lawrence, J. G. Ballard, Thomas Mann, Patricia Highsmith, and Saul Bellow, to name just a few. [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Extracts from Lars Iyer's Dogma available online
• Writers: J. G. Ballard
• Writers: Samuel Beckett
• Writers: Thomas Bernhard
• Lars Iyer talks to Biblioklept
• Lars Iyer on Writing, Reading and Thinking
• Literary Influences on Lars Iyer's Spurious
• Lars Iyer, Spurious