International Fiction Review, January 1st, 2006
In the Acknowledgements he inserts at the back of his 1998 novel Paris Trance, (1) Geoff Dyer lists ten instances in which, using an analogy from hip-hop, he says he "sampled" The Sun Also Rises. Dyer did not choose to appropriate such familiar Hemingway lines as "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing" and "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Instead, he borrowed such banalities as "It was amazing champagne" (PT 120), "It was raining hard outside" (PT 173), and "He took a big gulp of coffee" (PT 218). The effect is to make a mockery ...
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