{"id":8452,"title":"The Enormous Room","dimensions":"13 x 20.6 cm, 224 p, language: English, publisher: Boni \u0026 Liveright Inc. (1922), Dover Publications (2002), ISBN: 978-0486421209","date_begin":"1922-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/38","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"the-enormous-room","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/100/large/Enormous_Room.jpg?1404486565","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1917 young Edward Estlin Cummings went to France as a volunteer with a Red Cross ambulance unit on the western front. But his free-spirited, insubordinate ways 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. Under the vilest conditions, Cummings found fulfillment of his ever elusive quest for freedom. The Enormous Room, his account of his four-month confinement, reads like a latter-day Pilgrim\u0026#39;s Progress, a journey into dispossession, to a place among the most debased and deprived of human creatures. Cummings\u0026#39;s hopeful tone reflects the essential paradox of his existence: to lose everything is to become free, and so to be saved.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8446\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2099,"name":"E. E. Cummings","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}