A VoidAs his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, A Void's protagonist, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, is unaccountably found missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. All that it brings to light, though, is Vowl's liking (uncannily similar to his author's) for parody, wordplay and dazzling fictional constructs, constructs which continually risk spiralling out of control. And, gradually, insidiously, a ghost from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow... |
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User Review - EadieB - LibraryThingI did not like this book at all. I thought it was pretty insane but I like the fact that the author went to so much trouble not to use the letter 'e'. That's the only reason I gave the book 3 stars ... Read full review
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Contents
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Concluding with an immoral papacys abolition and | 25 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Void Vintage classics |
| Author | Georges Perec |
| Translated by | Gilbert Adair |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harvill, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0002711192, 9780002711197 |
| Length | 284 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Ghost Fiction / Horror |
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