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VOID

VOID
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VOID Pb - 2005

by PEREC,GEORGES

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  • Title VOID
  • Author PEREC,GEORGES
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Good+
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verba Mundi, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-11
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9781567922967.u1
  • ISBN 9781567922967 / 1567922961
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.79 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.01 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Paris (France), Gothic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005025124
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation


A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User's Manual.

A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all displaying Georges Perec's virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E.

The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterious circumstances . . .


A book that only Georges Perec could have conceived, The New York Times called A Void, "a rollicking story, wildly amusing and easily accessible to all of us who don't mind slipping, sliding and being tripped."


About the author

Georges Perec was a French essayist, novelist, memoirist, and filmmaker. Born in Paris in 1936, the child of Polish Jews, his father died as soldier in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Much of his work dealt with themes of identity, loss, absence--including his most celebrated work, Life A User's Manual.

In addition to being honored by the Prix Renaudot (1965), the Prix Jean Vigo (1974), the Prix Mdicis (1978), and the French postal service (2002), both an asteroid and a street in Paris were named in his honor--as well as a Google Doodle on his 80th birthday.


Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist--who took on the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel, A Void, in which the letter E is not used.

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