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Answer : GEORGES PEREC
Georges Perec (March 7, 1936- March 3, 1982) was a French writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation.
Perec’s best-selling novel Les Choses: une histoire des années soixante (Things: A Story of the Sixties) concerns a young Parisian couple whose personalities are consumed by their material goods. In 1967 he joined the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature). Known in short as Oulipo, the group dedicated itself to the pursuit of new forms for literature and the revival of old ones, and it had a profound impact on the direction of Perec’s writing.
Perec’s novel La Disparition (A Void) was written entirely without using the letter e, as was its translation. A companion piece appeared in 1972 with the novella Les Revenentes (“The Ghosts”; published in English as The Exeter Text), in which every word has only e as its vowel. W; ou, le souvenir d’enfance (W; or, The Memory of Childhood) is considered a masterpiece of innovative autobiography, using alternating chapters to tell two stories that ultimately converge. His most ambitious and most critically acclaimed novel is La Vie: mode d’emploi (Life: A User’s Manual).
Perec’s work in other areas includes a highly acclaimed 1979 television film about Ellis Island. Je me souviens (“I Remember”), a book of about 480 sentences all beginning with the phrase “I remember” and recording memories of life in the 1950s, was adapted for the stage. At his death Perec was working on a detective novel, which, edited by Harry Mathews and Jacques Roubaud, was published as 53 Jours (53 Days). A collection of essays, Penser/Classer (“To Think, to Classify”), was published posthumously, as was Art et la manière d’aborder son chef de service pour lui demander une augmentation (The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise). Perec’s first effort at a novel, Le Condottière (Portrait of a Man), which he had publicly referenced, was published in 2014.
More Clues
- ELESS Like the entire 290-page Georges Perec novel “A Void,” curiously enough
- ADAIR Gilbert _, author of “A Void,” a 290-page novel without the letter E
- MILT GROSS *20th-century cartoonist who wrote “He Done Her Wrong,” a 300-page pantomime tale
- DRAIN Empty completely
- LENGTHY Like a 1,000-page novel
- MAIGRET Parisian police commissioner created by French crime writer Georges Simenon
- LONG Like an 800-page novel
- AVOID Georges Perec novel without the letter E
- TILDE A mark to put over a letter, e.a… over a Spanish ‘N’ when pronounced ‘NY’
- ANNUL Lasting a year without a void
- ANNAL Book every 12 months to avoid a void
- INANE A void space
- ABYSS A void to avoid
- SHEER Completely avoid an unpleasant thing
- ERASE Remove a letter, e.g.
- REVUE Show minister Uxbridge, where there’s a vacancy
- THETA Letter E in that translation
- SIGMA Letter E missing: game is lost
- EVICT Create a vacancy, perhaps
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