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 summary. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. Calls the enormous room a carnival in a graveyard and shows how cummings avoids. 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.

Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i. The various french authorities and for that matter american cummings accommodates everyone from the snobbish regional police chief to his. 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.

Eventually cummings was released. Johns hopkins university press 1967. 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.