The Enormous Room

By E. E. Cummings

Subjects: Fiction, war & military, Biography, World War, 1914-1918 in fiction, French Prisoners and prisons, World War, 1914-1918, Concentration camp inmates in fiction, Concentration camps in fiction, France in fiction, European War, 1914-1918, Fiction, historical, general, American Personal narratives, Ambulance drivers in fiction, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Americans in fiction, Guerre mondiale (1914-1918), Americans, Biographie, Fiction, biographical, Concentration camps, Soldiers, Ambulance drivers, Prisonniers et prisons des Français, Personal narratives, Concentration camp inmates, France, fiction

Description: 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. Cummings and a friend, both members of an American ambulance corps in France during World War I, were erroneously suspected of treasonable correspondence and were imprisoned from August, 1917, until January, 1918. In this book, Cummings describes the prisoners with whom he shared his captivity, the captors who subjected their victims to enormous cruelty, and the filthy surroundings of the prison camp.