book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[Jeremy Osner]

MalignD at aol.com wrote:

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> and the novel La Disparition, which is written without the letter
> "e."  Perhaps more remarkable, it has been translated, also without the
> letter "e," into English (A Void, trans. Gilbert Adair).
>

A wonderful, wonderful novel, that one. I read Adair's translation -- my reading
very frequently interrupted by snorts, guffaws, deep-throated chuckles and
occasional descents into fully helpless-making, overpowering laughter.

Jeremy