So Moddelmog conceives of the author as a subject вЂњalways being inventedвЂќ by those who discuss them.

Her critique will likely be familiar to students of literary theory as it draws upon the major works that have influenced such theorists since their publication, including Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. Jenks himself essentially claims that he, Moddelmog snidely comments, вЂњbecame a sort of medium for the spirit of Hemingway.вЂќ But it was not a novel written by вЂњHemingwayвЂ™s spirit,вЂќ but a novel вЂњwritten, in effect, by way of cultural myth.вЂќ ModdelmogвЂ™s critique of The Garden of Eden acts as the centerpiece of Reading Desire precisely because it shows how we are our desires and, as us, our desires are what we filter the world through. At the time of its release, there was considerable controversy over the cuts from the original manuscript, including elements that would have questioned the image of Hemingway as a вЂњmanвЂ™s man.вЂќ So significant were these deletions to the reappraisal of Hemingway-and dominant cultural notions of masculinity, sexuality, race,-that editor Tom Jenks and publisher Scribner were forced to defend their editorial decisions. Reading Desire is an amendment of sorts to the constitution of HemingwayвЂ™s identity as the prototypical white, American, heterosexual man he is more than this, if you wish to see it.Дespite being published 13 years prior, the posthumous publication of HemingwayвЂ™s The Garden of Eden haunts ModdelmogвЂ™s book. Only after this does the book resemble a typical biography, and this is only to emphasize how the desire of readers/writers is linked to what is included in the biography of a writer. Then it is a biography of HemingwayвЂ™s cultural image. Reading Desire is not strictly a biographical pursuit of Hemingway.ДЇirst andВ foremost, it is the formulation of a theory on the relationship between reading and desire. But if one looks solely at the subtitle, one will be grievously misled about what Moddelmog herself is pursuing. And Ernest Hemingway is, of course, the subject of this desire. In being a pursuit, it is a constant activity. It is about a reading desire and a reading desire-desiring to read and reading to desire.

To understand the title of Debra ModdelmogвЂ™s 1999 book Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway is to anticipate the book itself.

Read ernest hemingway pdf