Threshold

“Daring and deranged, endlessly entertaining, furiously funny.”—Geoff Dyer
“Playful, potent, lurid, moving, and fearless.” —Lisa McInerney
“[A] modern day odyssey.” —Teddy Wayne
“A Pilgrim’s Progress for our time.” —Mike McCormack

An uninhibited portrait of the artist as a perpetual drifter and truth-seeker—a funny, profound, compulsive read that's like traveling with your wildest and most philosophical friend.

The narrator of Rob Doyle’s Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or “on the dole” in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist’s search for universal truth.

Following Doyle from Buddhism to the brink of madness, Threshold immerses us in the club-drug communalism of the Berlin underworld, the graves of myth-chasing artists in Paris, and the shattering and world-rebuilding revelations brought on by the psychedelic DMT, the so-called “spirit molecule.”

Exulting in the rootlessness of the wanderer, Doyle exists in a lineage of writer-characters—W. G. Sebald, Ben Lerner, Maggie Nelson, and Rachel Cusk—deftly and subversively exploring forms between theory and autobiography. Insightful and provocative, Threshold is a darkly funny, genuinely optimistic, compulsively readable celebration of perception and desire, of what is here and what is beyond our comprehension.

„Indraznet si deranjat, distractiv la nesfarsit, amuzant furios.” - Geoff Dyer „Jucaus, puternic, pandesc, miscator si neinfricat”. —Lisa McInerney „[O] odiseea moderna”. —Teddy Wayne „Un progres al pelerinului pentru timpul nostru”. —Mike McCormack Un portret dezinhibat al artistului ca un perifer si un cautator de adevar perpetuu - o lectura amuzanta, profunda, compulsiva, care este ca si cum ai calatori cu cel mai salbatic si cel mai filosofic prieten al tau. Naratorul Pragului lui Rob Doyle a petrecut ultimele doua decenii calatorind, scriind , si consumul de droguri si literatura in egala masura, finantat de scurte perioade de angajare sau „la gura” in Dublin.