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

Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things [Unofficia… March 27, 2026
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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

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