Georges Perec: not as easy as one assumes
Georges Perec was a French man of letters, the author of a famous novel that doesn’t use the letter ‘e’. He was a lover of puzzles and patterns, and often chose to create strange structures for the...
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Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words...
View ArticleCurious Constraints 3: fowl or foul or Vow or Voyal
But Georges Perec is the doyen of perverse, lipogrammic constraints. His La Disparition (1969), or The Disappearance, famously avoids any use of the letter ‘e’, as does Gilbert Adair’s prize winning...
View ArticleMore literary word-games…
Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words...
View ArticleGeorges Perec: not as easy as one assumes
Georges Perec was a French man of letters, the author of a famous novel that doesn’t use the letter ‘e’. He was a lover of puzzles and patterns, and often chose to create strange structures for the...
View ArticleCurious Constraints 4: Perec and after
Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words...
View ArticleCurious Constraints 3: fowl or foul or Vow or Voyal
But Georges Perec is the doyen of perverse, lipogrammic constraints. His La Disparition (1969), or The Disappearance, famously avoids any use of the letter ‘e’, as does Gilbert Adair’s prize winning...
View ArticleMore literary word-games…
Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words...
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