Doyle, Rob – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:41:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Doyle, Rob – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Autobibliography https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/autobibliography/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=17790 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 Рfrom the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bola̱o and Svetlana Alexievich Рas 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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