The Garden of Eden
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A young newly married couple, looking like brother and sister, spend the summer near the Mediterranean. David Bourne, the husband, fishes with a bamboo pole from a tavern adjacent to a canal. Catherine's hair has been cut in boyish fashion. Newspaper clippings about David's book seem frightening. Catherine drives to Biarritz alone. While staying in Spain she comes to believe it is too formal a country for her to continue playing a boy role. Then she changes her mind. Catherine views the El Greco paintings at the Prado and is seen in the gallery by Colonel John Boyle.
At a later time David and Catherine take three rooms near Cannes. Catherine arranges to have their hair cut and colored there. David and Catherine have a girl follower, Nina, who has an Isota. Nina is staying at their hotel and has her hair cut like theirs. A girl named Marita replace Nina in the triad arrangement as the plot of the book evolves. It is believed that she is in love with both David and Catherine and the three become enmeshed like three gears. Catherine is displaced, never-the-less, and feels herself to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
This book is an instance of Hemingway as an Anais Nin sort of writer. It is an interesting exercise in self-consciousness. One is reminded of A MOVEABLE FEAST, a Hemingway retelling of his early history in Paris, probably compiled from both late and early writings. This book is less eventful, but is similar in tone. This posthumous work contains the publisher's note assuring the reader it is solely the work of the author with only minor interpolations and routine copy-editing corrections.
Clearly the theme of doubleness, of twins, emerges from Hemingway's childhood experience of being dressed like his sister and the period in his adult life with Hadley and Pauline between his first and second marriages. In sum, it is a daring study of both identity and subjectivity.
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