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The enormous room

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin) 1894-1962 (Author). Hynes, Samuel, 1924- (Added Author).

Summary: "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." "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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780141181240
ISBN: 0141181249
Physical Description: xx, 278 pages ; 20 cm.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Samuel Hynes -- I.I Begin a Pilgrimage -- II. En Route -- III. Pilgrim's Progress -- IV. Le Nouveau -- V. Group of Portraits -- VI. Apollyon -- VII. Approach to the Delectable Mountains -- VIII. Wanderer -- IX. Zoo-Loo -- X. Surplice -- XI. Jean Le Negre -- XII. Three Wise Men -- XIII. I Say Good-bye to La Misere -- App: Introduction / Edward Cummings.