Autobibliography
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2021
Swift Press (Verlag)
978-1-80075-052-4 (ISBN)
Swift Press (Verlag)
978-1-80075-052-4 (ISBN)
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In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol.
‘Charmingly provocative’ Observer
‘A smorgasbord of delights’ Irish Times
‘Addictive … a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society’ The Spectator
InAutobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius to Robert Bolaño and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading and of a lifetime of books, by one of the most original and exciting writers around.
Reader Reviews
'Enlightening, engaging and fun'
'A *superb* gift for any bookish friend or relative with an eye for the human comedy'
'A page-turner ... bright and fresh'
‘Charmingly provocative’ Observer
‘A smorgasbord of delights’ Irish Times
‘Addictive … a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society’ The Spectator
InAutobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius to Robert Bolaño and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading and of a lifetime of books, by one of the most original and exciting writers around.
Reader Reviews
'Enlightening, engaging and fun'
'A *superb* gift for any bookish friend or relative with an eye for the human comedy'
'A page-turner ... bright and fresh'
Rob Doyle was born in Dublin and holds a first-class honors degree in philosophy and an MPhil in psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of the story collection This Is the Ritual and the novels Threshold and Here Are the Young Men, also a forthcoming film for which he cowrote the screenplay. He is the editor of the anthology The Other Irish Tradition, published by Dalkey Archive Press.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80075-052-8 / 1800750528 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80075-052-4 / 9781800750524 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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