http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/a-void/ book reviews and blurbs Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:24:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/a-void/comment-page-1/#comment-90 W, or The memory of childhood | books @ cc. Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:22:28 +0000 http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/a-void/#comment-90 [...] part. Readers familiar with his other more playful novels (such as Life: A User’s Manual and A Void) might notice a lack of general Oulipo constraints, but will still find Perec’s fragile [...] [...] part. Readers familiar with his other more playful novels (such as Life: A User’s Manual and A Void) might notice a lack of general Oulipo constraints, but will still find Perec’s fragile [...]

]]> http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/a-void/comment-page-1/#comment-40 The Death of the Author | books @ cc. Fri, 04 May 2007 08:32:58 +0000 http://books.coffee-cat.net/2007/04/a-void/#comment-40 [...] The title itself is an obvious reference to Barthes’ essay — indeed, one of the main attractions of this novella is its well-concocted mixture of tongue-in-cheek facts (especially from New York school) and fictions, weaved together with the integration of the theory itself inside the story. I picked this book up after reading Adair’s excellent translation of Georges Perec’s La Disparition (trans. A Void). [...] [...] The title itself is an obvious reference to Barthes’ essay — indeed, one of the main attractions of this novella is its well-concocted mixture of tongue-in-cheek facts (especially from New York school) and fictions, weaved together with the integration of the theory itself inside the story. I picked this book up after reading Adair’s excellent translation of Georges Perec’s La Disparition (trans. A Void). [...]

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