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Writing with art....Painting with literature
Hemingway... writing with Cézanne...painting with Flaubert...

The influence of modernism on Hemingway has been mentioned by specialists placing the young Hemingway in Paris in the midst of a group expatriate artists such as Picasso and Matisse who passed through Gertrude Stein's parisian gathering spot – 27 rue Fleurus. However, the world of art  in the broadest sense has generally not been a major issue among Hemingway critics.

We'll examine passages from the manuscript of the last posthomous novel - The Garden of Eden where the boundaries of sexual /gender/racial differences have gone under a ‘sea change’;

• through David Bourne’s gaze – the narrator mentions Rodin’s « Ovid’s Metamorphoses » - but the title of the statue has been crossed out : [...]it was like the statue. The one there are no photographs of and that [of which] no reproduction are sold . (GE, Mss. Item 422.1 : 1.1)

• exploring passages from another novel demonstrate the influence of  [...] Cézanne who started with all tricks. Then he broke the whole thing down and built the real thing. (The Nick Adams Stories)

• to show the verbal imagery of the author who [...] was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences. [...]

• and he [...] was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret ( A Moveable Feast)

The multiple references to painting – from Bosch to Rodin and from Goya to VanGogh - provide a new portrait of Hemingway and his fascination, conscious /uncoscious, for the themes such as temptation, secret, double, alchemy and death. Join us for this slide presentation as we explore the intersemiotic (pictural/textual) relationship between the work of Bosch, Cézanne, Rodin, Flaubert and Hemingway.

About Jamileh Talebizadeh

Jamileh Talebizadeh is a practicing psychoanalyst and responsible for a writing workshop for patients at a therapeutic center. She is the founder of the Research Centre Pari(s) de James Joyce.../MEMORIENT-LA HUPPE (Art, Literature, Psychoanalysis) where she conducts the programmes  «Pari(s) d’écrivains, Pari(s) d’artistes »  and « Ecrire avec l’art » within the project «  Fine Arts Creative Writing Workshop & New Psychoanalytic Perspective ».

Jamileh holds a doctorate in American literature and has published Une blessure posthume : ‘The Garden of Eden’ : le manuscrit d’Ernest Hemingway (1998). Translator of poetry, nurseryrhymes, and psychoanalytical articles into English, French, and Persian, she has taught English at La Sorbonne.