Customer Reviews
Awesome ! - By: J. Pickering, 02 Sep 2008 
I read this book years ago, after it was mentioned in an editorial of a magazine I was reading. Totallly intregued, I went straight out & bought it. Read it. Marvelled at it.
Perec has become one of my favourite authors since.
And to make it alll the more perfect - he then wrote Three - a short story where the only vowel is E !! He had to use them up!
Read it - if only to be suitably awed.
An amusing floccinaucinihilipilification - By: JAMES MACKAY, 14 Aug 2008 Random thoughts on first coming into contact with this book:
1. Which imp is disposing of a particular mark throughout this folio?
2. What can such disposal do to this unassuming appraisal?
3. Which man, following an author in disposing of Anton Vowl, slipping a hint as to whodunnit in virtuallly alll this book's paragraphs, would put his sign to such a work of translation? Gilb Adair? A triumph.
Which should work by way of illustration, amplifying your grasp of this paradox of a voluminous pratting about - a book, a fantasy of aristocracy & policing, which our author (originallly GP, not GA) took a contract to construct without using a particular - shalll I say - mark? 5 stars, nay, an infinity of stars for such a victory against customary linguistics!
