This linguistic conjuring trick -a full-length novel in which the letter 'e' is not used -is a dazzling mixture of parody and wordplay, further proof of Perec's status as the most singular writer France has produced in the last fifty years. It is also a masterpiece of Gothic fiction.
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Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life: A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.
"A true tour de force: a full-length novel containing not a single 'E'. An entertaining post-modern detective story...dazzling... the translator's dazzling recreation conveys the author's near magical cleverness while preserving an underlying seriousness that makes this book much more than a curiosity" (New Yorker)
"Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicisation of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humour, pathos and loss" (Time)
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Vendeur : Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Very Good+. First Edition Thus; First Printing. First Edition Thus in the UK (1995) ; First Printing, so stated, but this is a REMAINDER, showing a mark at the bottom edge of the text block. Else, Very Good+ in Wraps: shows mild wear to the corner tips; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the back-strip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear. Bright and clean. NOT Book-Club or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.35 x 0.75 inches). Translated by Gilbert Adair. Language: English. Weight: 12.5 ounces. Black and Rust-Red design to the panels on a white background field. Crossed out "E" design at the front panel. First published in French in 1969. This translation published in hardcover in 1994. Trade Paperback. As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, disappears. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. Perec lost his mother in the Holocaust. A Void is precisely about the difficulty of speaking in the absence of the most necessary thing. Not merely an intellectual tour de force -- although certainly that -- but one of the most subtle things ever written on grief. The book has a killer, loopy, murder mystery plot, and at the same time manages to be a deeply felt meditation on absence and the way absences constitute our lives. Lots in common with Derrida, etc. The translation is a work of genius/insanity. I can't imagine a better job being done. As much a masterpiece of translation as a novel, A Void contains not one single letter 'e' anywhere in the main body of the text. This clever and unusual novel is full of plots and sub-plots, of trails in pursuit of trails and linguistic conjuring tricks; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xi, 284 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 59710
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Vendeur : Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition UK; First Printing. First Edition UK (1995) ; First Printing, so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a faint eighth-inch, stray mark at the fore-edge; the very mildest wear to the extremities; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and a minor, unobtrusive imperfection. Bright and clean. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.35 x 0.75 inches). Translated by Gilbert Adair. Black and Rust-Red design to the panels on a white background field. Crossed out "E" design at the front panel. Trade Paperback. As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, disappears. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. Perec lost his mother in the Holocaust. A Void is precisely about the difficulty of speaking in the absence of the most necessary thing. Not merely an intellectual tour de force -- although certainly that -- but one of the most subtle things ever written on grief. The book has a killer, loopy, murder mystery plot, and at the same time manages to be a deeply felt meditation on absence and the way absences constitute our lives. Lots in common with Derrida, etc. The translation is a work of genius/insanity. I can't imagine a better job being done. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xi, 284 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 43244
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Vendeur : Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. First Edition Thus in the UK (1995) ; First Printing, so stated. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a single page creased right at the tip; a tiny nick at the head of the backstrip; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, nearly-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Very close to "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 8vo (8.4 x 5.35 x 0.8 inches). Translated by Gilbert Adair. Black and Rust-Red design to the panels on a white background field. Crossed out "E" design at the front panel. First published in French in 1969. This translation appeared in hardcover in 1994. Trade Paperback. As his country is torn apart by social and political anarchy, Anton Vowl, a chronic insomniac, disappears. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any indication, for any faint hint, as to his location. Perec lost his mother in the Holocaust. A Void is precisely about the difficulty of speaking in the absence of the most necessary thing. Not merely an intellectual tour de force -- although certainly that -- but one of the most subtle things ever written on grief. The book has a killer, loopy, murder mystery plot, and at the same time manages to be a deeply felt meditation on absence and the way absences constitute our lives. Lots in common with Derrida, etc. The translation is a work of genius/insanity. I can't imagine a better job being done. As much a masterpiece of translation as a novel, A Void contains not one single letter e anywhere in the main body of the text. This clever and unusual novel is full of plots and sub-plots, of trails in pursuit of trails and linguistic conjuring tricks; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xi, 284 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 58399
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Vendeur : Brit Books, Milton Keynes, Royaume-Uni
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Vendeur : Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
Softcover. pp. xi, 284. Small 8vo. Illustrated covers. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. "There is not a single E in this novel. That's right: no here, there, where, when; no yes, no love, no sex!". N° de réf. du vendeur 5281
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