Reception and Legacy
Hemingway's writing style attracted attention when in our time was published. Edmund Wilson described the writing as "of the first destinction", writing in the Dial that the bullfight scenes were reminiscent of Goya's art, that the author "had almost invented a form of his own", and of the book as whole that it had "more artistic dignity than any written by an American about the period of the war."
In Our Time was praised by literary critics when it was published in 1925, and Mellow says of the book that it is one of Hemingway's masterpieces, although ironically his parents hated it and referred to it as "filth".
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