What is a lipogram?
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If I tell you that the
most famous
lipogram
in French literature is
La Disparition
by Georges Perec, you will guess the meaning of this word.
From the Greek
leipogramme
(leipei, remove and gramma, letter), this figure of speech, which some qualify as literary manipulation, therefore consists in
producing a text by deliberately dispensing with one or more letters
.
This is how the great Perec managed a 226-page novel without using the letter "e" to the delight of its readers and that of your servant who has an immeasurable admiration for this author.
Perec goes from lipogram to
monovocalism
This feat, because it is one when we know that this letter is the most frequent in our language, Perec completed it three years later with Les Revenentes.
It's a novel in which he only used the "e" as a vowel.
I will not surprise you by specifying that a text like this is called a
monovocalism
, the exact opposite of a lipogram.
Many other authors have engaged in this
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