While Fleming feels that Jenks did a creditable editing job, nevertheless he also feels that Jenks’s “soothing ending” does not suggest the more complex, tragic sense of Hemingway’s “provisional” ending, wherein David agrees to a suicide pact with Catherine (39–40). Peters’s “The Thematic Integrity of The Garden of Eden,” provide useful analyses of Jenks’s version of the novel. Fleming’s “The Endings of Hemingway’s Garden of Eden” and K.

In the next section, “Editing and Manuscript Issues,” Robert E. P.” and John Updike’s “The Sinister Sex.” Whereas Doctorow essentially dismisses Hemingway’s characterization of Marita (“She is colorless and largely inarticulated”) (19) as well as David’s elephant story (“it is bad Hemingway”) and concludes that “this cannot be the book Hemingway envisioned” (20), Updike observes that “the book, as finally presented, is something of a miracle, a fresh slant on the old magic…” (23). to gain Patrick Hemingway’s permission to publish the edited version of the novel, an account that includes Jenks’s rendition of Patrick’s story about surprising his father and Martha Gellhorn in their bedroom at the Finca Vigía, “making love in a position that Patrick suggested they must have learned from a marriage manual” (6).ĭel Gizzo and Svoboda next provide two insightful responses to Jenks’s version of Garden: E. Among Jenks’s most revealing anecdotes is his account of flying out to Bozeman with Charles Scribner, Jr. In their informative introduction, Del Gizzo and Svoboda explain two chief goals that they subsequently achieve: “We have gathered in one place what we believe to be the most important criticism published on The Garden of Eden to date in an effort to provide an overview of the trends in and the contours of the critical conversations over the past twenty-five years as well as to indicate possibilities for future scholarship” (x).Īlso in their introduction, the editors point out that they have included one previously unpublished entry, Tom Jenks’s “ The Garden of Eden at Twenty-five,” a very appropriate inclusion given the critical attention Jenks’s editing of Garden has attracted since its publication. Compiled by two of our leading Hemingway critics, this anthology can serve as a handy resource for both beginning and advanced Hemingway scholars.

This anthology, which brings together many of the most influential essays on Hemingway’s posthumous novel, may well become as important to scholarship on The Garden of Eden as the novel itself has been to our understanding of Hemingway and his most controversial literary work.

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