A Void

Anton Voyls progress is the title of the German translation of Georges Perec's novel La Disparition, which appeared for the first time in 1969. Exactly as in the original dispensed translator Eugen Helmle to the use of the vowel e, thus creating thus a Leipogramm. La Disparition is regarded as a significant work of potential literature, it has been translated into Spanish, among other things (El secuestro, 1997), translated into Swedish ( Försvinna, 2000) and into English (A Void, Gilbert Adair in 1995, and A Vanishing ) except to German. All translations are Leipogramme and come without the common letters of the respective language ( in English and Swedish e, in Spanish, a).

Action

Foreword

The dependency of the government of the United States and the threat of famine can go to the barricades in France the people. There will be a bloody revolution, the country plunges into chaos.

Chap. 1 Anton Voyl

Anton Voyl suffers from insomnia extended period of time, a neighbor finally brings him to the hospital, where they examined him and sent to a ear, nose and throat doctor. He will be operated on and is eight days in the hospital. When he is released, he is considered cured, but he can not sleep still. Anton has visions, believes in his imminent death. In a vision he has lived as a refugee Ismail on the island Tahili, as a sort of Robinson Crusoe. A group traveler arrives and lives in an old colonial villa, Ismail falls in love with Faustina, one of the travelers. But neither Faustina nor men can perceive Ismail, he also can not come into contact with them. Before More can happen, the island begins to decay and eventually destroyed by the monsoon. In order to get his visions into the handle, Anton diary begins to write, almost half a year every day. He also developed the concept for a novel whose main character Aigan, an African prince, a similar fate as Oedipus. Only Aigan disappears unlike Oedipus suddenly. Later, Anton reads a newspaper article about Major Didot and Dupont, which contains a stolen jacket, the important internal information to the police, are looking for but can not find. He finished his diary with three bars and the mysterious sentence Brings lawyer H., where the zoo is constantly smokes, eight of whiskey Ia quality. Then Anton Voyl is gone.

Chap. 2 Hassan Ibn Abbou

Anton Voyls friend Armaury Conson searched his house and asked the neighbors. He leafs through Anton's books and reading manuscripts that have come Anton and Anton's diary. He is convinced that Anton has been abducted, but police do not believe him, but from the Quai d' Orsay ( seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Application similar to the 10 Downing Street), a certain Ottaviani is sent. Armaury thinks of the last sentence in Anton's diary and goes to the zoo, where he meets Olga, who had an affair with Anton. The two actually meet a lawyer or the lawyer H. Hassan Ibn Abbou who thinks 8 Whiskey is a racehorse, and they promised to give a manuscript on Monday. Armoury meets Ottaviani, and the two see how a man is kidnapped, the Armoury holds mistaken for the lawyer. They discuss whether Anton in his closing sentence actually refers to Hassan Ibn Abbou or whether the lawyer wants to deceive them. Armoury asks Ottaviani out if the taxi driver Armaud Karamazov knows something about Anton's disappearance. They arrange to meet to the races the next day. The next day Ottaviani sitting in the bistro, where he meets his superiors Aloysius Swann, he gives him a letter from the Consul Alain Gu.rin. The Consul asks that no further investigation in the case of Anton Voyl be made. The two talk about the suspects, about Anton's mistress Olga, Karamazov, who has installed an alarm system in Anton's car, and Hassan Ibn Abbou, with the Ottaviani and Conson 're agreed. In the afternoon, Ottaviani, and Olga Conson hit the racetrack Longchamp, but the horse does not win 8 whiskeys. Disappointed drive back the three to Paris and get drunk. Olga is sentimental and tells the story of Anton's puzzling insomnia. The next morning visit Conson and Ottaviani as agreed Hassan Ibn Abbou in his villa, but before she eyes on him, he is stabbed to death in a side room by a stranger with a poisoned dagger. Conson then searches the house and finds the lawyer in the vault the fifth part of Anton's records, he still reads it the same night. It is a confused story about Ismail and Moby Dick. On Hassan Ibn Abbous funeral Conson tells a stranger, that the prosecutor had trouble with Carpocino, who also holds a grave speech. When the coffin falls to the ground, it turns out that it is empty. What happened to Hassan's body, is not released.