In our time
In Our Time is a collection of short stories by the American writer Ernest Hemingway , published in the United States in 1925, his first publication in the States. Like later works, the book is characterized by the author's short and concise writing style. In addition, stories such as Three Days of Storm are the first examples of Hemingway's iceberg theory .
Hemingway presents the reader, among other things, the character Nick Adams , who has taken over clear autobiographical traits from the author. Similar to a development novel, these stories tell the protagonist's growing up in several episodes. The boy, who develops into a man in the course of the stories, also appears in Hemingway's collection of stories Men Without Women , and after his death further stories about Nick Adams from his estate were published.
Some of the works in the volume are still part of Hemingway's best-known short stories, including a. On the quay in Smyrna , Indian camp , The doctor and his wife , The end of something , Three days of storm , The fighter and cat in the rain . The book contains a total of fifteen short stories.
expenditure
- In our time. Stories (original title: In our Time , Three Mountains Press, Paris 1924, translated by Annemarie Horschitz-Horst ), Rowohlt, Berlin 1932; rororo 278, Reinbek near Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-10278-1 .
Literature on the Nick Adams Stories
- Philip Young: The Experience of Nick Adams. Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time". In: Gerhard Hoffmann (Ed.): American Literature of the 20th Century, Volume 1 . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-436-01444-3 , pp. 147-168.