Reading Hemingway's the Garden of Eden by Carl P Eby
Published in 1986, Ernest Hemingway's novel The Garden of Eden is a literary landmark. In this volume, Carl Eby examines Hemingway's original unrevised manuscript in relation to Scribner's highly edited edition to clarify for readers which parts of the original work had been retained, altered, and discarded in the publisher's text."This is a superb work by an innovative and erudite scholar, and it will surely become the definitive resource for understanding The Garden of Eden"—Debra A. Moddelmog, author of Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway and coeditor of Ernest Hemingway in Context
"Carl Eby's Reading Hemingway's The Garden of Eden offers Ernest Hemingway devotees exactly what we've been begging for since 1986 when the scandalous tale of David and Catherine Bourne's gender-bending experiments in erotic mutuality first hit bookshelves: a comprehensive guide to the relationship between the 800-page manuscript the author labored over throughout the 1950s and the pie-slice-sized abridgement that was allowed into print only a full quarter century after his suicide. Thanks to Eby's detailed line readings, we no longer need lament that the voluminous drafts of The Garden of Eden aren't publicly available."—Kirk Curnutt, author of Coffee with Hemingway and coeditor with Suzanne del Gizzo of The New Hemingway Studies
"This reader's guide lays bare the editorial cutting, shaping, and 'straightening' that produced the Scribner's version of The Garden of Eden, and it reveals how the deleted manuscript material projected an even more complicated narrative. Authoritatively explaining Hemingway's sometimes esoteric cultural references, Eby also documents the autobiographical origins of the sexual games and fetishes pervading the author's most audacious novel."—J. Gerald Kennedy, author of Imagining Paris
Carl P. Eby is professor of English at Appalachian State University and president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. He is the author of Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood and coeditor of Hemingway's Spain: Imagining the Spanish World.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781606354582 |
| ISBN 10 | 1606354582 |
| Title | Reading Hemingway's the Garden of Eden |
| Author | Carl P Eby |
| Series | Reading Hemingway |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kent State University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 408 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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