http://therumpus.net/2009/06/why-dont-you-dance-with-her/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Sun, 27 May 2012 03:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://therumpus.net/2009/06/why-dont-you-dance-with-her/comment-page-1/#comment-4701 ewan Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:26:11 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=23629#comment-4701 OK Guys, I know it wasn't a completed Hemingway but still - It really does depend on how you designate what a novel is and whose name should be on it. There area lot of posthumous works out there that we should be very grateful the author did not consign to the flames. I'm sure we'd all rather have seen the pages that Ted Hughes tore out of Sylvia Plaths journals. And actually for all the hackery involved Garden of Eden is actually a fine novel. A lot of Hemingway fans might be offended by it, as if shows a Hemingway who is vulnerable, has a feminine side and even lets women do things to his ass that he probably wouldn't mention in public. It's a queer book and maybe Hemingway was bendier than we'd like to believe. Would you rather not have known this? Would you rather the text had been burned? OK Guys, I know it wasn’t a completed Hemingway but still – It really does depend on how you designate what a novel is and whose name should be on it. There area lot of posthumous works out there that we should be very grateful the author did not consign to the flames. I’m sure we’d all rather have seen the pages that Ted Hughes tore out of Sylvia Plaths journals. And actually for all the hackery involved Garden of Eden is actually a fine novel. A lot of Hemingway fans might be offended by it, as if shows a Hemingway who is vulnerable, has a feminine side and even lets women do things to his ass that he probably wouldn’t mention in public. It’s a queer book and maybe Hemingway was bendier than we’d like to believe. Would you rather not have known this? Would you rather the text had been burned?

]]> http://therumpus.net/2009/06/why-dont-you-dance-with-her/comment-page-1/#comment-4543 D Johnson Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:59:37 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=23629#comment-4543 Important to remember that The Garden of Eden isn't really a Hemingway novel but an invisibly edited/anthologized commercial bit of publishing hackery whereby a freelance editor reduced a gigantic unfinished draft to a product a very small fraction of the original lenght. By most accounts the original manuscript has more than a dozen major and minor characters; as published the book really only has three. The Garden of Eden, strictly speaking, HASN'T been published. Important to remember that The Garden of Eden isn’t really a Hemingway novel but an invisibly edited/anthologized commercial bit of publishing hackery whereby a freelance editor reduced a gigantic unfinished draft to a product a very small fraction of the original lenght. By most accounts the original manuscript has more than a dozen major and minor characters; as published the book really only has three. The Garden of Eden, strictly speaking, HASN’T been published.

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