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A Void
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ISBN10: 1567928226
ISBN13: 9781567928228
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Nov 18 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781567928228
Publisher: Verba Mundi
Published: Nov 18 2025
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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.
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