Scope and Contents First published in French as "La Disparition," this novel is written without the using the letter "e" in any of the words. The Sackner Archive holds the French edition which is written the same way. Books written by Adair, a British writer, and published by Writers Forum, are also held by the Sackner Archive. The following is a review of this book from Case Western Reserve University English Department in 1997 that was copied from their Internet site in 1999. Anton Vowl is missing. Slain or just put away, nobody knows, but a similar void now looms for his pals as that group frantically hunts A Void's lost protagonist. Anton is missing also a singular ABC, which graphic mark ought to form part of a sound Vowl and a common "Vowl" sound. Arranging for many such omissions in this book is our lurking author, a lipogrammatic artist and assassin who both plots Vowl's doom and plucks his customary signatorial pictograph. The author is the late Georges Perec, who in 1969 took up the...

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Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One loose sheet incorporates image of an advertisement for "Other Books By W.H. Mallock," the author of "A Human Document." Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. He currently lives in London, England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems in this book for the most part appear to be automatically written. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of this issue was designed by David Barton. The latter also contributes an essay about his work and a bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of this issue was designed by Colin Simms (falsely attributed to Herbert Burke and corrected in No.13). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of "A Void" by George Perec, translated from the French by Gilbert Adair. Perec has witten the novel as a lipogram without using the letter E throughout the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ian Monk has been a translator of Georg Perec's books. Monk contributes a chapter of analysis of Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's "A Void. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.