Autobibliography

Name: Autobibliography
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SKU: 9781800750524
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By Rob Doyle

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Autobibliography by Rob Doyle is a unique blend of memoir and literary exploration where the author navigates his personal life through the books that have shaped him. Doyle reflects on the authors and texts that have influenced his journey, offering insight into his experiences and thoughts. This book is an ode to the power of literature and its profound impact on one's life.
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If you enjoy exploring the intersection of literature and personal reflection, this book offers a unique blend of memoir and literary essay. It may appeal to you if you appreciate insightful commentary on books and how they resonate with one's life experiences, offering a deeply personal and intellectually stimulating journey.

Autobibliography

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.

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In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two of his favourite books – from Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Emmanuel Carrere – 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.

Provocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.

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Autobibliography by Rob Doyle has been praised as an addictive and candid self-portrait, with the author being both sharp and humorous. It is described as a beguiling work that is essential for readers and writers alike, offering a deeply honest exploration of Doyle's life and thoughts. His prose is noted for being lively and compelling, making him an engaging companion and guide through literature.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800750524

Publisher: Swift Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Swift Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Rob Doyle

About the Author

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.

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