Title:
The enormous room / E.E. Cummings ; edited with an introduction and glossary by Samuel Hynes.
ISBN:
9780141181240
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Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999.
Physical Description:
xx, 278 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
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.
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.
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OCLC Number:
ocm39756767
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