The enormous room
by E. E. Cummings
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"In 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy."--BOOK JACKET.
"Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim's Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ambulance drivers, Ambulance drivers in fiction, American Personal narratives, Americans, Americans in fiction, Biography, Concentration camp inmates, Concentration camp inmates in fiction, Concentration camps, Concentration camps in fiction, European War, 1914-1918, Fiction, France in fiction, French Prisoners and prisons, Personal narratives, Soldiers, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, Guerre mondiale (1914-1918), Prisonniers et prisons des Français, Biographie, Fiction, biographical, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, war & military, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, War work, Red Cross, American National Red CrossPeople
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The enormous room: a typescript edition with drawings by the author
1978, Liveright
in English
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The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris. Cummings and a friend, both members of an American ambulance corps in France during World War I, were erroneously suspected of treasonable correspondence and were imprisoned from August, 1917, until January, 1918. In this book, Cummings describes the prisoners with whom he shared his captivity, the captors who subjected their victims to enormous cruelty, and the filthy surroundings of the prison camp.
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