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On this day in 1982, the experimental French writer Georges Perec died, at the age of forty-five. Like Italo Calvino, Perec belonged to the "Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle" group, founded in 1960; translated, this would be "Workshop of Potential Literature," but the group is known internationally as OuLiPo, if only because of their enthusiasm for the lipogram.
Lipogrammatically speaking, Perec began by writing a 466-word story excluding all vowels but "a." In 1969, he published La Disparition, a 100,000 word novel excluding the letter "e" (Gilbert Adair's 1994 English translation is called A Void, the e-rule disallowing The Disappearance) ... FULL STORY »
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