What?

Brett Porter bporter at musicamusa.com
Fri Sep 6 10:31:08 CDT 1996


<deletia>
>> 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?
I liked "Life: A User's Manual", so I was excited to see the translation of
"A Void". 
I gave up after about 80 pages. However, I'm still looking forward to the
follow-up novel, in which 'e' is the only vowel employed.
>(2) Does Perec's name appear on the cover? If so, that's two e's...
Not only his name, but his picture, on the back. He had the same manic look
as some pictures I've seen of Dali.

BgP
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