Music of speech and Hemingway’s novel "The garden of Eden"

Ernest Hemingway started the novel «The garden of Eden» in 1946 and worked on the manuscript for the next 15 years, during which time he also wrote "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Dangerous Summer", "A Moveable Feast", and "Islands in the Stream". 

The novel describes five months in the lives of David Bourne, an American writer, and his wife Catherine. It is set mainly in the French Riviera and in Spain. 

"The garden of Eden" is a Hemingway’s later novel, where author describes beauty of the sea and delights of life on the Mediterranean coast, as if following forms of poetry and obeying the laws of musical poetic speech.

If we apply the philosophy of the music the 20th century to the novel "The garden of Eden", then some musical concepts such as accumulation, multiplication, oscillation, acoustic ecology and emerging of the sound become applicable to the analysis of anti-narrative practices of the author, thus explaining his idea and building an associative range, as if supplement the novel with several dimensions. 

During our meeting you will know about most famous interpretations of "The garden of Eden", musicality of its composition and with which musical masterpieces of modernity we can compare such significant novel of the author. 

Lecturer 

Nina Scherbak, Associate Professor in the Department of English Philology and Cultural Linguistics at St Petersburg University, Master of Arts (the United Kingdom), a writer and screenwriter. She is also a scriptwriter for science television shows, author of fifteen monographs, and books on linguistics, literature, language philosophy, and English literature. 

The lecture will be streamed online in Russian with simultaneous translation into Spanish as part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of SPbU — Russia’s first university.

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