Absences in VL

[pporteous at worley.co.nz]

>>But Pynchon does the same in GR and M&D.  Part of his "technique", you
might
>even say.  Any thoughts about these absences as a literary device?
>
>Scott Badger
>


George Perec's wonderful book "W, or The Memory of Childhood" is another
book with this technique. The book, two stories which run parallel to each
other but seem unrelated, is "about" the holocaust, yet the subject is not
mentioned at all (except very briefly at the end), and is consequently all
the more powerful for it, I found. Absence becomes presence.

peter