A VoidThis linguistic conjuring trick -a full-length novel in which the letter 'e' is not used -is a dazzling mixture of parody and wordplay, further proof of Perec's status as the most singular writer France has produced in the last fifty years. It is also a masterpiece of Gothic fiction. |
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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 |
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