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The Enormous Room
The Enormous RoomE.E.CummingsIn Great War-era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings' descriptions, peppered liberally with colloquial French, avoid time and, for the most part, place, and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment, especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: The Delectable Mountains.During his imprisonment, Cummings' father petitioned the U.S. and French authorities for his liberty. This, and his eventual return home, are described in the book's introduction.The Enormous RoomE.E.CummingsIn Great War-era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners' communal cell. It's these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings' descriptions, peppered liberally with colloquial French, avoid time and, for the most part, place, and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment, especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: The Delectable Mountains.During his imprisonment, Cummings' father petitioned the U.S. and French authorities for his liberty. This, and his eventual return home, are described in the book's introduction.
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The Enormous Room
"In 1917, after the entry of America into World War I, E. E. Cummings, arecent graduate of Harvard College, volunteered to serve on an ambulance corps in France. Arrived in Paris with a new friend, William Slater Brown, the two young men set about living it up in the big city before heading off to their assignment. Once in the field, they wrote irreverent letters about their experiences which attracted the attention of the censors and ultimately led to their arrest. They were held for months in a military detention camp, sharing a single large room with a host of fellow detainees. It is this experience that Cummings relates in lightly fictionalized form in The Enormous Room, a book in which a tale of woe becomes an occasion of exuberant mischief. A free-spirited novel that displays the same formal swagger as Cummings' poems, a stinging denunciation of the stupidity of military authority, and a precursor to later books like Catch-22 and MASH, Cummings' novel is an audacious, uninhibited, lyrical, and lasting contribution to American literature"--
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The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics)
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The Enormous Room
An early autobiographical novel by the great American poet, closely based on his experiences in a French detention facility in World War I. Falsely suspected of spying for Germany, Cummings and a friend were detained in appallingly squalid conditions amid abusive guards and an international collection of people who would be misfits under most circumstances. Considered by F. Scott Fitzgerald to be the finest novel to emerge from the Great War, it remains a vivid tale documenting the stupidity and cruelty endemic to authorities afflicted equally with paranoia and power.fic
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