Tag Archives: Perec

More literary word-games…

Posted 20 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words that begin with ‘a’, the second of words …

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Curious Constraints 3: fowl or foul or Vow or Voyal

Posted 634 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

But Georges Perec is the doyen of perverse, lipogrammic constraints. His La Disparition (1969), or The Disappearance, famously avoids any use of the letter ‘e’, as does Gilbert Adair’s prize winning English translation A Void. Other translations impose similar limitations …

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Curious Constraints 4: Perec and after

Posted 751 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Followers of Perec abound. ‘Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes…’ This is the opening sentence of Walter Abish’s Alphabetical Africa (1974). The first chapter is composed only of words that begin with ‘a’, the second of words …

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Georges Perec: not as easy as one assumes

Posted 852 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Georges Perec was a French man of letters, the author of a famous novel that doesn’t use the letter ‘e’. He was a lover of puzzles and patterns, and often chose to create strange structures for the novels he wrote: …

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