Erica Jong: "Saya sendiri benci paradigma Hemingwayesque tua tentang p...

"Saya sendiri benci paradigma Hemingwayesque tua tentang penulis sebagai pemenang dan saya telah berusaha keras untuk membuat alternatif bagi saya sendiri. Ketika Anne Sexton menegur saya, "Kita semua menulis puisi Tuhan," Saya menganggapnya tidak boleh ada persaingan antara penulis karena kita semua terlibat dalam proyek bersama, doa bersama. Tetapi bagi generasi Gore dan Norman, khususnya para penulis pria yang bertugas dalam perang dunia kedua, paradigma prizefighter tetap ada."

--- Erica Jong

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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.