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Book review

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

A Book in Which Nothing Happens / Anonymous; Thaler M; Perec G; Castillejo JL; Wright C., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43321-45380
Scope and Contents

This article reviews Michel Thaler's "The Train From Nowhere" (in French and held by the Sackner Archive). This book does not have any verbs following in the tradition of Pindar ("Ode Minus Sigma"), Lope Carpio ( five novels without vowels). Gottlob Burmann (130 poems without r's), George Perec ("La Disparition," "Les Revantes"), Charles Vincent Wright ("Gadsby"). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

All Talk, No Action: A Funeral for Verbs, with Few Pallbearers / Bryan-Low, Cassell; Morice, Anne-Michele; Perec G; Thaler M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42646-44664
Scope and Contents

This is a front page review of "Le Train de Nulle Part" (The Train to Nowhere) by Michel Thaler, the non de plume of Michel Dansel. The novel is written without any verbs - heavy on exclamation points and dashes. It is of the same genre as George Perec's work without any e's. The review itself is written without verbs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Cahiers George Perec / Perec, Georges., 1985

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Identifier: CC-32010-33541
Scope and Contents

This book consists of essays on Perec and his work, e.g., Perec and Judaism, sexual aspects to his work, utopian ideas, etc. It also includes annotations and analysis of Perec's book, "Life: A User's Manual," photographic reproductions of manuscript pages, and notes for Perec's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Read My Lipograms / Kincaid, James R.; Perec G; Adair G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-08105-8265
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1995