In Our Time

What is the author's style in In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway?

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Hemingway is renowned for the economy of his description and the leanness of his prose. The blunt rhythms and the deliberate repetitions have been both praised and mocked. Nevertheless, his influence on the evolution of English literary style cannot be denied. His is a style for the modern age, when flourish and ornamentation of writing will not stand.

A significant part of the uniqueness of this work is the nature of the connectives among the stories. Each chapter-heading page contains an italicized memoir that rarely runs for more than a paragraph and often leaves much white space on the page. Many of these literary snapshots embody a moment or an incident in the life of an unidentified narrator, who a knowledgeable reader would readily presume to be Hemingway since the incidents in the chapter heading memoirs hew close to circumstances in Hemingway's life.

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In Our Time, BookRags