This was my impression as well. Well, being a non-native speaker I tend to blame myself. Still, this style of writing does sound self-indulgent to me:
"Hemingway’s voice distilled itself with miraculous speed, a fusion of telegrammatic urgency and high modernist impersonality, with counterpoint learned from Bach and rhythms located profoundly in his own neurology"
I have a mnemonic short story in my head that places modernists and post-modernists roughly in first and second half.
> Post-modernism reacted to the modernists high ideals and empty promises. After all, it was their era (the modernists) that sparked the Great War which introduced the world to the new era industrialized warfare. Not once, but twice. Post-modernists arrived into this new Cold world that was left.
