On Sat, 2 Sep 2000 00:21:22 -0400, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
>Adrien Beau wrote in message <39B02962.9D32DE09@free.fr>...
>>There's one French writer, Georges Perec, that has very
>>often imposed rules on his work, and always managed
>>to be very creative within these rules. His most impressive
>>achievement was a ~200 pages novel, called the 'Disparition',
>>that didn't contain any single letter 'e' (the most
>>used vowel in French, and also in English, I think).
>
>
>Even more impressive is the English translation of the novel.  The
>translation doesn't use the letter 'e' either.

Did he change his name for the purposes of writing the book <G>

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