The Enormous Room (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: e. e. cummings
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: 1917
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
- Locales: France
Places Discussed
*Western Front. World War I combat zone in which the narrator’s Norton Harjes Ambulance Service is serving the Allied forces. As an idealistic American volunteer in this Ambulance Corps, the narrator ironically experiences “prolonged indignities and injuries”; feeling badly deceived, he longs for release, a main theme of the novel. That initial release comes, paradoxically, when he is arrested by the French, along with his Harvard friend, B., on suspicion of being spies.
*Noyon (NOH-yohn). Small French city north of Paris where the narrator is...
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