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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Lezard
Georges Perec was attracted by formal challenges to writing: his most famous achievement was his novel La Disparition, written without using the letter "e" once. (This is particularly hard in French, but the late Gilbert Adair managed to translate it into English, under the title A Void.) There was serious intent behind this; it was an echo of the Nazis' efforts to remove every single Jew from Europe.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard
It is now Wednesday, which means I am on Day Three of the hangover from lunch in London on Sunday. On the whole, things are much better than they have been. The nausea is largely gone, as is most of the trembling. The first day, though, was horrendous – as bad as anything I can remember in a life that has had a few belters in its time.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard
I had another one of those birthdays the other day. It was a small and pleasant affair, held as per usual in the garden of the Battle of Trafalgar. Two of the children came down from London (the third is in the Far East, so he has an excuse) and the evening was made quorate by a posse of most of my Brighton friends.
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3 weeks ago |
thejc.com | Nicholas Lezard
Still, we should pay attention to writers because they know about words, and therefore morality, better than anyone. I know this because I am a writer. So, if they say it’s genocide, then genocide it is, and if you look at the UN’s somewhat elastic definition of the term, you just have to accept that common usage means the word has shifted its meaning, just like “disinterested”, “decimate”, and – to pluck an entirely random example from thin air – “Zionist”.
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Nicholas Lezard
To the cricket at Hove for some soothing, slow action. Sussex were playing Worcestershire in the County Championship and over the course of two and a half days were making Worcestershire rue the day they set off in the team coach. Don’t worry, this won’t really be about the cricket. But to set the scene: this is not the modern iteration of the game, where teams play a shortened and somewhat manic version in coloured clothes and give themselves names like the Sussex Sharks.
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