Autobibliography EPUB
by Rob Doyle
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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 as painful, alarming or downright distasteful.
In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol. In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, 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. 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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- Publication Date:21/10/2021
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