ABSTRACT
Ernest Hemingway’s best writings involve ‘aberrant’ sexuality along with ‘normal’ heterosexuality and this chapter on the posthumously published The Garden of Eden re-establishes the claim. The title indicates the major themes which include temptation, transgressive love, attraction for forbidden sexual knowledge, quest for truth and destruction or fall. Sub-themes include the instability of identity, the variability of race and sexuality, verisimilitude and the connection between art and reality. Unpublished sections in the manuscript show that the text is replete with an intense transgressive eroticism and the desire to enter a territory of creative textuality by appropriating with the help of women a psychosexual femininity.
