Fall Book Club: In Our Time [Part 1 of 3]

Working as a foreign correspondent journalist who also published poetry, Hemingway didn't publish fiction until his poetry editor Ezra Pound encouraged him to explore the genre as a means of expression. This collection of stories was the result, reflecting both the Modernist cause for literature and the influence of Imagistic techniques. Consisting of fourteen short stories with interconnecting vignettes, it distills the psychological traumas and social transformations wrought by "the Great War" (WWI), of which Hemingway was a veteran (having served as an ambulance driver), and covers not only the war years but the post-war aftermath of the early 1920s.

David Savola, a Hemingway scholar, will be our discussion leader.