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A Void by Georges Perec

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Anton Vowl has gone missing, and left his friends puzzling over his inexplicable disappearance. Has he been the victim of a kidnapping? Murder? Amnesia? An accident or dark personal trauma? Or, as increasingly seems to be the case as we proceed in this postmodern mystery, was some sort of metaphysical condition—a type of void or absence, rather than an …

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