"Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought."
— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)
Author
Work Title
Date
June 27, 2025
Metaphor
"Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought."
Metaphor in Context
I am good at tracking the whirring of perception and consciousness, which, of course, takes us back to what Montaigne said he was doing, chasing all these rabbits of thought around his head. He would often do that in response to something that he’d noticed in the world and then in a solipsistic way, it ends up being about mental processes as well. That I can do. And Bernhard is all obsessive mental gurning. Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Geoff Dyer, interviewed by Leo Robson. "Theory in the Air" New Left Review: Sidecar (June 27, 2025). <Link to NLR>
Date of Entry
07/17/2025
