Language Truth and Logic, A. J. Ayer historical fiction Real Life is a novel

Real Life is a novel of profound and lacerating power

Drawing on five hundred original interviews with James Murphy

a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair

ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE If you could write a letter to your younger self

begins a search that takes him from the archives of Cambridge University to the depths of his own mad mind

Language Truth and Logic, A. J. Ayer historical fiction Real Life is a novelIf you can't prove something, it is literally senseless so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo American philosophy and made its author