History Literature / AVoid

* ArcNumber: Twenty-six. Usually within the twenty-six things, one is missing and it's always the fifth one.
* ChildByRape: [[spoiler:Subverted with Olga]].

* {{Cult}}: Othon Lippmann's cult, that Augustus was a part of.

* GirlFriday: Garamond is referred to as a "Man Friday"

* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler:Douglas Haig and Olga]].
* {{Hallucinations}}: Anton suffers from these.
* TheInsomniac: Anton, of the realistic variation.

* MacGuffin: Discussed in the chapter titled: ''Which, notwithstanding a kind of [=McGuffin=], has no ambition to rival [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]]''

In 1968, a group of companions are looking for their odd insomniac pal, Anton Vowl, who is missing. Rooting through his flat for hints, said companions find his compulsion with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram lipograms]] and wordplay, but dismiss it as unimportant. But as this group sifts through his syntactical manipulatios and find additional occasions of this constraint, individuals in this inquiry start to vanish...

In 1968, a group of friends are searching for their eccentric and insomniac friend, Anton Vowl, who went missing. Searching his apartment for clues, they find his obsession for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipogram lipograms]] and word play, which they dismiss as unimportant. But as they investigate his games and discover more and more they start disappearing one by one...

Later Perec would write a book called ''Les Revenentes'' (''The Exeter Text'' in English) which doesn't have a single vowel in it ''except'' the letter "e".

--> "... proof that Our Lord is occassionally wrong, a notion that brings about a profound diminution of faith in His flock... So God, too, alas is only human."

Later Perec would write a book called ''Les Revenentes'' which doesn't have a single vowel in it ''except'' the letter "e".

** [[MobyDick Ismail]] (a character from a book Anton is reading - possibly) becomes aware that he's in a film from the 1930s.

* OutWithABang: Inverted. [[spoiler:Olga's mother, Anastasia, is saved by having sex]].

* DeadLittleSister: Conson has four definitely dead sons, one missing (presumed dead) and one that doesn't visit him any more.

** [[OliverTwist "Food, glorious food!"]]

Perec stated that he wrote ''A Void'' upon realising that if he removed all of the "e"s from his name he didn't exist any longer.

Written by Georges Perec in 1969, it's [[DancingBear noted]] for being a book without the letter "e" which is the most common letter in the French language. Its original title was ''La Disparition'' (''The Disappearance'') and was translated into English by Gilbert Adair in 1994 and managed to keep the letter "e" from appearing at all.

Later Perec would write a book called ''Three'' which doesn't have a single vowel in it ''except'' the letter "e".

* MacGuffin: Discussed in the chapter titled: ''Which, notwithstanding a kind of [=McGuffin=], has no ambition to rival [[AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]]''

** [[{{OliverTwist}} "Food, glorious food!"]]

* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler:Douglas Haig]].

* InWhichATropeIsDiscussed: The summary of the majority of the chapters, though they are usually unimportant to the plot.

* {{Meaningful Name}}s: The friends' names refer to each of the vowels (including "y") except "e".

* ShoutOut: [[{{OliverTwist}} "Food, glorious food!"]]

Written by Georges Perec in 1969, it's [[DancingBear noted]] for being a book without the letter "e" which is the most common letter in the French language. It's original title was ''La Disparition'' (''The Disappearance'') and was translated into English by Gilbert Adair in 1994 and managed to keep the letter "e" from appearing at all.

* MeaningfulNames: The friends' names refer to each of the vowels (including "y") except "e".

* ShoutOut: [[{{OliverTwist}} "Food, glorious food!"]]

* SelfImposedChallenge: A meta-example, obviously.