The Enormous Room

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.

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

People: E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Places: France,  United States,  La Ferté-Macé (France)