Title
Ernest Hemingway: The Garden of Eden
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Draws on Lacan’s theories to argue that Scribner’s published version foregrounds the novel’s conscious Freudian connections. Stoltzfus examines the oedipal narrative of castration, incest, and death lying just below the surface of the overlapping Africa and Riviera stories, concluding that David and Marita’s relationship at the end is a bliss filled rebirth signifying paradise regained. Previously published as “A Post-Lacanian Reading of Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden” in American Journal of Semiotics 5, nos. 3-4 (1987): 381-95.
Published in
Lacan and Literature: Purloined Pretexts
Date
1996
Pages
90-102
COinS
Citation
Stoltzfus, Ben. “Ernest Hemingway: The Garden of Eden.” In Lacan and Literature: Purloined Pretexts, 90-102. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.