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HEMINGWAY VS. STENDHAL, OR PAPA'S LAST FIGHT WITH A DEAD WRITER.
From: The Hemingway Review
Date: 19990922
Author:MILLER, PAUL W.
FROM ABOUT 1935 to 1950, Hemingway cultivated the bizarre image of the writer, usually himself, as a prize fighter successively challenging and defeating more and more formidable dead writers--such as Ivan Turgenev (1818-83), Guy de Maupassant (1850-93) and Stendhal (1783-1842)--in a struggle to become literary champion of the world. It is difficult to know how seriously to take these boasts about matters that better fitted Hemingway's increasingly arrogant public persona than his persona as a serious artist. Yet when Hemingway writes, as he did to Charles Scribner in 1949, "Am a ...
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