The Enormous Room Summary

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The enormous room summary.

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. 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. In the early pages i couldn t understand why the author was describing every incident and every person he met in such great detail. I begin a pilgrimage we had succeeded my friend b.

Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. 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. The enormous room the green eyed stores is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist e. The various french authorities and for that matter american cummings accommodates everyone from the snobbish regional police chief to his.

Cummings and a friend both members. Johns hopkins university press 1967. Calls the enormous room a carnival in a graveyard and shows how cummings avoids. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i.