Autobibliography: Portrait of the artist as a young, angry and sensitive man
Rob Doyle’s new collection of short essays sees him ponder the impact that his favourite books have had on him down the years
LITERARY CRITICISM
Autobibliography
By Rob Doyle
Swift Press, €13.99
In his autobiographical novel Threshold, Rob Doyle described the experience of perusing a book without a highlighter pen as “reading bareback”. Such is the Dubliner’s intoxication with The Trouble with Being Born by EM Cioran, after four readings he had highlighted (in different colours) almost the entire text.
Unsurprisingly, Cioran features in Doyle’s new publication Autobibliography, a collection of 52 short essays about books that have ...
