The Exeter Text: Jewels, Secrets, Sex
Another classic
lipogram from
Georges Perec, a core member of
OuLiPo, The Exeter Text uses all the spare letter
E's missed out from
A Void, and no other
vowels in a crazy sexual tale of a jewel theft in a cathedral (a playful reworking of a family
myth).
Les Revenentes, translated from the
French by
Ian Monk, retains Perec's self-enforced game rules by even disallowing the use of the letter Y as a full vowel (thus, 'yes' is allowed, but 'gypsy' not).