A Void

Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair

Fiction

An English rendering of Perec's lipogrammatic novel 'La Disparition,' a full-length book written entirely without the letter E, a constraint Adair preserves throughout. Timothy Gowers admired Adair's writing for the kind of constrained ingenuity that appeals to mathematicians, recounting that he once read an entire review of the book without noticing it too avoided the letter E.