technology

A Pulitzer winner wrote a short story without using the letter "I"

boingboing.net • 27 Mar 2026, 22:06

A Pulitzer winner wrote a short story without using the letter "I"
First pages of Carol Shields short story "Absence"

In 1969, French author Georges Perec wrote La Disparition, an entire novel that does not contain the letter E. In 1994, Gilbert Adair translated it into English as A Void — also without a single E. I've only read portions of it, and I'm still amazed that someone could tell a coherent story without the most common letter in the English language. — Read the rest

The post A Pulitzer winner wrote a short story without using the letter "I" appeared first on Boing Boing.

Les originalartikkelen

Relaterte artikler etter nøkkelord