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Cargando... The Enormous Room (1922 original; edición 1970)por E. E. Cummings (Autor)
Información de la obraLa habitación enorme por e. e. cummings (1922)
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> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Cummings-Lenorme-chambree/4690 > Je vous incite à lire ce monument d'écriture. Une littérature de la joie et de la poésie, dans un lieu sordide et déprimant. Une écriture riche, savoureuse, que l'on doit lire avec attention, comme pour ne pas briser la magie des mots. —Danieljean (Babelio) I found e.e. cumming's novel "The Enormous Room" to be a challenging and dull read. It's an autobiographical story about the time he was imprisoned in France following his service as an ambulance driver during World War I for (erroneous) suspicions of treason. He is transported to a series of prisons where he meets a variety of people, which he describes in great detail, before his eventual release four months later. I was just bored by this book -- which has dense prose and plenty of French sprinkled through it -- my mind kept wandering and I frequently was wondering if I missed something that makes this tale interesting. I'm glad cummings mostly stuck to poetry. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Anyway, Cummings' account held my interest, but I had some problems with it. I know Cummings was a young man, but his account has a definite adolescent quality replete with various highly offensive slang terms for his fellow inmates. The book is peppered with French; single words, phrases, and longer amounts. I suppose this is to give the flavor of the situation. I know a few words of French, but I was constantly using the Kindle to translate. Some of the words may be the slang of the times since I could not translate them. It didn’t seem to me that the book would have lost anything by being written all in one language or the other. Lastly, the book is described as sort of an ur-Catch 22. But it is hardly that. Furthermore, I'm familiar with several other anti-war writings of the time that are superior. I think this book’s obscurity is understandable. ( )