A VoidA mind-bending novel 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 of displays 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. |
Contents
Which at first calls to mind a probably familiar story of | 3 |
In which luck Gods alias and alibi plays a callous trick on | 12 |
Concluding with an immoral papacys abolition and | 25 |
Which notwithstanding a kind of McGuffin has no ambition | 37 |
Which following a compilation of a polymaths random | 44 |
In which an unknown individual has it in for Moroccan | 57 |
In which you will find a word or two about a burial mound | 69 |
In which an amazing thing occurs to an unwary basso profundo | 81 |
Which will furnish a probationary boost to a not always | 163 |
In which you will know what Vladimir Ilich thought | 170 |
In which following a pithy summary of our plot so far a fourth | 207 |
In which you will find an old family custom obliging a brainy | 221 |
In which an anxious sibling turns a hoard of cash found in | 238 |
Which starting with a downcast husband will finish with | 253 |
Which contains in its last paragraph a highly significant | 265 |
Which as you must know by now is this books last | 273 |
In which you will find a carp scornfully turning down a halva | 140 |
In which untying a long string of fabrications | 155 |
POSTSCRIPT On that ambition so to say which lit | 281 |