The cover page is adapted from The Prison Courtyard, a painting completed in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Goghwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Enormous Room
Capítulos (14)
- Introduction 0:00
- I: I Begin a Pilgrimage 13:18
- II: En Route 50:31
- III: A Pilgrim’s Progress 1:17:42
- IV: Le Nouveau 2:06:49
- V: A Group of Portraits 3:43:41
- VI: Apollyon 4:38:00
- VII: An Approach to the Delectable Mountains 5:38:02
- VIII: The Wanderer 6:52:18
- IX: Zoo-Loo 7:21:43
- X: Surplice 8:06:04
- XI: Jean le Nègre 8:36:43
- XII: Three Wise Men 9:28:44
- XIII: I Say Goodbye to La Misère 10:07:05
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In Great War–era France, E. E. Cummings is lifted, along with his friend B., from his job as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross, and deposited in a jail in La Ferté Macé as a suspected spy. There his life consists of strolls in the cour, la soupe, and his mattress in The Enormous Room, the male prisoners’ communal cell. It’s these prisoners whom Cummings describes in lurid detail.
The Enormous Room is far from a straightforward autobiographical diary. Cummings’ descriptions, peppered liberally with colloquial French, avoid time and, for the most part, place, and instead focus on the personal aspects of his internment, especially in the almost metaphysical description of the most otherworldly of his compatriots: The Delectable Mountains.
During his imprisonment, Cummings’ father petitioned the U.S. and French authorities for his liberty. This, and his eventual return home, are described in the book’s introduction.