The Enormous Room Review

The title of the book refers to the large room where cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners.

The enormous room review.

However it also serves as an allegory for cummings mind and his memories of the prison such that when he describes the many residents of his shared cell they still live in the enormous room of his mind. The title of the book refers to the large room where cummings slept beside thirty or so other prisoners. Anna jones s striking set design featuring overgrown cabinets stacked like lego blocks tables with door like surfaces used as beds and cupboard doors opening to reveal suggestions of other. The enormous room the green eyed stores is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist e.

Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late august 1917 his friend and colleague william slater brown known in the book only as b was arrested by french authorities as a result of anti war. A large barn sized room on the top floor of the detention center where the inmates spent most of their time. 5 star 0 0 0 4 star 0 0 0 3 star 0 0 0 2 star 44 1 star 56 the enormous room.

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. In stopgap dance s the enormous room there is a similar sense of confused stasis of the ordinary suddenly seeming sundered unclear and overblown. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in france during world war i. The captivity in la ferté macé served as the basis of cummings autobiographical novel or rather fictionalized autobiography the enormous room.

The various french authorities and for that matter american cummings accommodates everyone from the snobbish regional police chief to his. The title comes from the holding area for the dozens of prisoners. 1 4 out of 5. The enormous room customer reviews.