Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden: Glossary and Commentary
All sorts of theories have been advanced in explanation of why Catherine wants to play with her born form, but, the more I ponder this strange novel, the more I am drawn to the notion that Catherine's desire "to destroy you," a wish directed at her husband on page three, arises out of...
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| Published in: | The Hemingway Review 2023, Vol.43 (1), p.130-134 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | All sorts of theories have been advanced in explanation of why Catherine wants to play with her born form, but, the more I ponder this strange novel, the more I am drawn to the notion that Catherine's desire "to destroy you," a wish directed at her husband on page three, arises out of frustrations and resentments generated by the traditional division of labor. The allusions to art, food, and the look and feel of places are especially pungent. A reader moving through Eby's book is thereby invited to walk through the contents of Hemingway's original pages, to pause at a significant detail, and to assess Jenks's art of leaving things out. [...]Jenks's self-congratulatory little allegory sheds a poignant light back on the true author of all of the sentences in the book he has shaped, given that a capacity for self-editing- surely an essential element of the creative process-was, when it came to completing The Garden of |
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| ISSN: | 0276-3362 1548-4815 |