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).
Clochemerle Clochemerle is a French satirical novel by Gabriel Chevallier which was first published in 1934. The book is set in a fictional French village called "Clochemerle", inspired by Vaux-en-Beaujolais, and situated in the Beaujolais region. The book is a comic work, satirising the conflicts between Catholics and Republicans in the French Third Republic by telling the story of the installation of a urinal in Clochemerle's village square.