The Enormous Room Summary

Johns hopkins university press 1967.

The enormous room summary.

Here they stayed for about 3 months in the enormous room with about 60 70 other male prisoners women were held in another part of the building. The enormous room the green eyed stores is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist e. I begin a pilgrimage we had succeeded my friend b. Eventually cummings was released.

In the early pages i couldn t understand why the author was describing every incident and every person he met in such great detail. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. Cummings and a friend both members.

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. War time japes the enormous room the fictionalised account of cummings s arrest and incarceration by the french on charges of sedition during wwi reads like a billy bunter story the protagonist is obnoxious and endearing in about equal measure. World war i and the american novel baltimore md. In late august 1917 his friend and colleague william slater brown known in the book only as b was arrested by french authorities as a result of anti war.