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This article offers an overview of Ernest Hemingway’s collection of short stories In Our Time (1925), drawing on a series of suggestions surrounding the title within the historical context of the post-World War I moment, as well as in light of a dialogue with T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land and its reflection on peace in the contemporary world. It then focuses on the diptych structure of the work (a short prose followed by a story) and on its modernist strategy of montage and juxtaposition, which illuminates certain dynamics of re-emergence and reinforcement of a web of themes and questions, particularly those related to violence, impotence, historical disillusionment, and the weakening of social and human relationships, which prove still relevant to our own time.