What?

[Craig Clark]

On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Meikle wrote:

> Who among us hasn't said "What?"?!  If Nixon never did, then he's a better
> man than Georges Perec, who wrote that shaggy dog of a novel that
> completely excludes the letter E (translated into English by someone who
> also successfully avoided any use of E).

To which Mikko Keskinen replied:
 
> That someone is Gilbert Adair, whose e-avoiding translation of Perec's _La
> Disparition_ is wittily titled as _A Void_ (Harvill, 1994).

Two questions: 
(1) Okay, so it's awfully damn clever and all that, but is it any good?
(2) Does Perec's name appear on the cover? If so, that's two e's...


Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"