The Enormous Room (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from datrappert

Though sometimes called an autobiographical novel, The Enormous Room tells the basically true tale of how Cummings and a friend, serving as ambulance drivers during the First World War, were detained in prison for several months by the French Government as a result of their antiwar views and, in ...

from abirdman

Cummings' only novel, an autobiographical work about being imprisoned in France during WWI.

from ursula

While volunteering as ambulance drivers during WWI, Cummings and a friend of his ran afoul of the French government as suspicious characters. They were suspicious because they spent more time with the French than with their American compatriots, and because Cummings' friend (referred to in the bo...

from amerynth

I found e.e. cumming's novel "The Enormous Room" to be a challenging and dull read. It's an autobiographical story about the time he was imprisoned in France following his service as an ambulance driver during World War I for (erroneous) suspicions of treason. He is transported to a series of pri...

from Schmerguls

419. The Enormous Room, by E. E. Cummings (read 17 Mar 1952) This is an account of a five months detention in a French prison in 1917 because of a mistake. Cummings in this book is young and his future poetic style only bobs up in his prose foreshadowingly. I think he exaggerated the awfulness of...