What author of The Holy Innocents was most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel "A Void"?
Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel "A Void", in which the letter "e" is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including "Love and Death on Long Island" (1997) and "The Dreamers" (2003).
Eumeswil Eumeswil is a 1977 novel by the German author Ernst Jünger. The narrative is set in an undatable post-apocalyptic world, somewhere in present-day Morocco. It follows the inner and outer life of Manuel Venator, an historian in the city-state of Eumeswil who also holds a part-time job in the night bar of Eumeswil's ruling tyrant, the Condor. The book was published in English in 1993, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.