Similar mistakes of spelling and grammar occur in other Abish works, such as How German Is It (1980), where exact presentation is clearly a priority, and thus the mistakes come across as intentional.
Then, the process reverses, and the book works its way back through the alphabet, letter by letter and chapter by chapter, from Z back to A.That correspondence is the glue that binds the books together: otherwise Perec and others could have simply taken existing novels or newspaper accounts (as Goldsmith and others do) and subjected them to predetermined rules.
In Perec's "Life: A User's Guide" the elaborately constrained writing is in close harmony with the stories of the people in the apartment building. This makes it bit more difficult to take the endeavour entirely seriously (maybe it should be An Almost Alphabetical Africa ?
These translators now form an African Film Translator Network and are an enduring legacy of the project as they continue to subtitle films for the AfriDocs network. Walters draws on his abiding love of Africa for his latest offering, which takes readers to the savannah without the lengthy plane ride…Strong black lines and saturated colour offer striking visual interest.
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