Hemingway and Tolstoy. A Pugilistic Encounter
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

Encounter"Am a man without any ambition," Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher in 1949, "except to be champion of the world.[ . . .] Know this sounds like bragging but Jeezo Chrise you have to have confi dence to be a champion and that is the only thing I ever wished to be." 1 "Writing whether you want it or not is competitive," Hemingway had written twenty years earlier, no doubt sensing that some of his own creative energy, his striving toward excellence, was derived from his strong sense o