Gardens of Eden and Earthly Delights: Hemingway, Bosch, and the Divided Self

Abstract

Although omitted from the Scribner's edition of the novel, Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights figures prominently in the manuscript of The Garden of Eden. Bosch was much on Hemingway's mind throughout the 1950s, with references to him appearing in several novels and interviews, but the tripartite structure of Bosch's great triptych—with panels devoted to Eden, worldly delight, and Hell—is especially important to The Garden of Eden, mirroring a divided attitude central to the structure of the novel and central to the structure of Hemingway's psychology.

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