Has anyone else read this book?
It is my favorite Hemmingway novel.I was so surprized to hear that is was being made into a film. It was written at the end of his life, and published years later. It is dark and twisted. I can only hope they do this beautiful story justice.
I read it probably 10 years ago. I've always loved the name Marita since. Hopefully it will avoid the "Hemmingway curse" that befalls all his novels that are brought to the screen...simply because it's the least like the rest of his books in my opinion. In a way you could tell he'd been dying to write that story for a long time. It's kind of an infantile male fantasy thing, though, you've got to admit. I didn't love it as much as you apparently did.
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Hemingway's finest novel - hands down.
shareactually it's one of my least favourite books of Hemingway... for some reason there are parts when it just doesnt feel like a Hemingway book.
But it's a nice story and I'm curious about the movie, also curious to see the relation betwen the 3 and the hair cuts!
Any ideas on how literal we're supposed to take the sexual swapping of roles between David and Catherine? Not to be too explicit, but what do you think was going on between the two of them in the bedroom? When she was the "man," was she actually penetrating him with some object, or was it just a metaphor?
sharethat is actually a quite interesting theory, since some biographys have talked about some "non convencional experiences" from Hem...
shareHemingway tried very hard to make each reader do the interpreting and so make the story their own. For me, it was metaphor.
"I told you it was off." The Jackal
The problem I have with this book being made into a movie is that Hemingway actually never finished the book himself; he worked on it for about 15 years before he died, and then Scribner's contracted someone to "finish" it. Hemingway had over 1500 pages in the original manuscript, which included a deep subplot involving another couple. Hopefully, the movie will at least adhere to the current edited text so that we aren't presented with a story thrice removed from Hemingway's original manuscript.
shareI also had that trouble with the book,I didnt even found it that much of a "hem novel", I really think that of all his works this is the one that has the less Hem flavour to it...
shareThe Garden of Eden is not a work by Hemingway. Period. Full stop.
That said, it's a brilliant and insightful resource for Hemingway scholars. Really, really shines a modern light into the intricacies of Hem's soul. But adapting it for film was plum effin' stupid and never should have been authorized.
"The Garden of Eden is not a work by Hemingway. Period. Full stop."
That is complete rubbish. All they did was correct some grammar and spelling, did a few simple edits and released.
Almost every word in it was typed by Hem. Do your research before you go making stupid comments.
"If you get in bed with the devil, sooner or later you have to fook."
Uhm, what's your research?
The publication of the The Garden of Eden is controversial because of the editing done to the manuscript. Susan Seitz argues that in this novel Hemingway was forging a new direction in his fiction which was lost in the editing process. She believes the editing to have been substandard, with "substantial cuts of lines, scenes, and whole chapters, the addition of manuscript material that Hemingway had discarded, and transposed scenes and dialogue." The result, she claims, does not "represent Hemingway's intentions in these works as he left them." -http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9329667/
It even says in the published book that 2/3rds of it were edited out and someone was hired to finish it up.
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Funny thing. This is one of my favourite Hemingway novels too (I also like A Moveable Feast). I think it is pure Hem, The Sun Also Rises with a twist and written much later in life, and much more complicated. The intense feeling you get from the places is all Hemingway. This is as far as you can get from the much overrated and pretentious The Old Man and the Sea. Really loved the novel. But I fear the movie... it should be erotic, laid back and complicated. But it will probably involve surfing scenes and over-the-top-athletic-sex.
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