{"product_id":"cummings-e-e-the-enormous-room-9780141181240","title":"The Enormous Room","description":"Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings rebelled against the prevailing values of his Harvard and Unitarianism-steeped milieu. His relentless search for personal freedom led him to Greenwich Village in early 1917, where he established himself as a Modernist, composing his sui generis poems and abstract paintings. Later that year, he impulsively joined the war, serving in a Red Cross ambulance unit on the Western Front. His free-spirited, combative ways, however, soon got him tagged as a possible enemy of La Patrie, and he was summarily tossed into a French concentration camp at La Ferte-Mace in Normandy. Unexpectedly, under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever-elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room (1922), the fictional account of his four-month confinement, reads like a Pilgrim's Progress of the spirit, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Yet Cummings's hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his experience: to lose everything -- all comforts, all possessions, all rights and privileges -- is to become free, and so to be saved. Drawing on the diverse voices of his colorful prisonmates -- Emile the Bum, the Fighting Sheeney, One-Eyed Dah-veed -- Cummings weaves a \"crazy-quilt\" of language, which makes The Enormous Room one of the most evocative instances of the Modernist spirit and technique, as well as \"one of the very best of the war-books\" (T. E. Lawrence).","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53417920954710,"sku":"9780141181240-G","price":9.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780141181240_1_355bd2ee-4861-47fa-ba24-7b353aa4c971.jpg?v=1778079451","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/cummings-e-e-the-enormous-room-9780141181240","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}