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Reminds me of Gadsby, where the author wrote an entire novel without the letter e. Even more impressive is others have translated it into other languages, still without the e.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)



Likewas, thirty years later George Perec wrote La disparition[1] which is also devoid of the letter "e", and was also translated to multiple languages with similar constraints (with some variants, the Spanish version for instance is written without "a").

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void


In the Perec instance, it's what was called by the Oulipo group (of which he was a part), a Lipogram. Perec wrote a follow-up text in which the only vowel used was e. A Canadian author wrote a suite of five novellas each restricting themselves to a single vowel. In his case, he went through a dictionary by hand and created vocabulary lists for each novella.

I've read the English translation of La disparition and I'd note that (a) the act of translating a Lipogram is kind of its own special challenge (which might be also why the Spanish version chose to omit a instead of e—without e, a wide class of plurals and all third-person forms of to be are lost, although a rules out most feminine nouns) and (2) the writer/translator ends up building a vocabulary of standard circumlocution to avoid the forbidden letter, e.g., “this/that man” in place of “he.”


There are also books written in an E-Prime english. In E-Prime you can't use any form of "to be"(is, are etc.).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime


Though that's less restricted writing for the joy of it and more a philosophical claim that "nothing is, everything does." In other words, the use of "be" to define two things to be equivalent acts as a short-circuit to convince people of a relation without doing the work to demonstrate it.


"Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn is in a similar vein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Minnow_Pea


That's called ‘constrained writing’ in general, and there are lots of different approaches and examples of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing




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