The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics) - E. E. Cummings

Descriere The Enormous Room (Warbler Classics) - E. E. Cummings

\n \nThe Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under suspicion of espionage-a circumstance he could have easily avoided had he professed a hatred of Germans. Instead, when questioned, Cummings answered French authorities in a way that insured that he would accompany his friend B. (William Slater Brown), who was indeed guilty of writing letters critical of the French government. The psychologically tense narrative-shocking and provocative in its day-juxtaposes the barbarity and inhumanity of war against the comradery and collective spirit of the oppressed. As a piece of writing, it foreshadows the whimsy, humor, pessimism, and jubilance that would come to characterize Cummings's poetry while, on its own, it stands as a major work of World War I literature. This Warbler Classics edition includes Paul Headrick's essay Brilliant Obscurity: The Reception of The Enormous Room, as well as a detailed biographical timeline.\n \n \n\n \n \n\n

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Warbler Press Inc.

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ENSTK

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9781954525252

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1

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