Ernest Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden"

... also forthcoming... news of, and a release for, the feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Garden of Eden." [For update info, see recent post.]

"Garden" has long been my favorite of Hemingway's novels.  Like all his best work, it gives you the look and feel of places (in this case the Cote d'azur in the 1920s), but also the sensuous thrill of what the world offers, the excitement of complex relationships, and the tension of sexual intrigue.  I only hope the film lives up to this great book.  (Disclosure: I wrote the film adaptation.)

The trailer can be seen here, or here.

And more information here.  Announcement here, here with commentary here... by ace blogger Liberty London Girl here.

And The Paris Review Daily reports on a New York screening at Tribeca Grand Hotel here.

Garden of Eden, in Alicante, Spain

... as recounted variously, a link to come, "Garden of Eden" begins shooting next week in Alicante, Spain. Huzzah. John Irvin directing, handsome Jack Huston as David Bourne, Caterina Murino as Marita, and Mena Suvari as Catherine. As far as I'm concerned Mena Suvari can do anything and anything and anything.

Garden of Eden, found in Alicante, Spain

Production of film adaptation of Hemingway's "Garden of Eden" begins next Monday,in Alicante, Spain. As recounted variously last week, posts to come, John Irvin directing Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino, Carmen Maura, Matthew Modine...

Hemingway's THE GARDEN OF EDEN

... some old news via... “Page Six,” NY Post, July 28, 2006

REVIVING PAPA
Former Paris Review Editor James Linville is writing a movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden" for Berwick Street Productions, a UK indie film company. Hemingway kept that novel, a boundaries-breaking erotic drama about a young American triangle in the South of France, under lock and key, publishing it posthumously, only after all the real-life models were departed. Linville was a longtime protégé of the Review's George Plimpton, who himself was mentored by "Papa." When Plimpton visited Hemingway in '50s Havana, the older writer told him, "There are three good rules you can trust for writing. The first: Write about what you know. The second and third? No one ever remembers what they are."