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| | Hemingway's In Our Time: Lyrical Dimensions. - book reviews Studies in Short Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Since its publication on 5 October 1925, In Our Time has been called, among other things, a "bildungsroman," a "fragmentary novel," a "short story miscellany," a "short story cycle," and a "literary hybrid" that combines something of the variety of an anthology of stories with something of the homogeneity of a novel. |
 | | Although Hemingway was painstaking in his arrangement of the 32 stories and interchapters in In Our Time, and although he himself declared on several occasions that the pieces have "a pretty good unity," some critics have found the work's structure problematic, lacking cohesiveness. |
 | | Wendolyn Tetlow, too, focuses on structure but maintains that In Our Time "is a coherent, integral work." She points out that a number of elements contribute to the work's unity - the character Nick Adams, recurring topics and themes, image patterns, symbols - but concludes that the book's structure is, at the deepest level, lyrical. |
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