Looking Through \u3cem\u3eThe Garden\u3c/em\u3e’s Mirrors: The Early-Postmodernist Hemingway Text

Considers The Garden of Eden a metafictional narrative resurrecting Hemingway’s early style. Characterizes the three African stories as “avant-garde pieces molded within a long postmodern kind of framing narrative.” In her examination of the mirror motif, Penas Ibáñez contends that the “dying elephant allegorizes the doom of modernist realism through a typically modernist African motif recurring within a postmodernist text.