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Favourite books revisited: Rob Doyle’s edgy reading list

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

15 January 2022

9:00 AM

Autobibliography Rob Doyle

Swift Press, pp.256, 12.99

‘Male writers now are the opposition party, and that may not be such a bad thing for them.’ So Rob Doyle writes in this addictive self-portrait/collection of reviews. And if male writers are now in navel-gazing opposition, ousted by a landslide of female talent, judging by this book Doyle is one of their most reactionary members, still in thrall to those outmoded frontbenchers who were long ago elevated to the Lords: Nietzsche, Huysmans, Bataille, Houellebecq, Amis Jr.

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