Anton Voyl's departure

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Anton Voyls Fortgang is the title of the German translation of Georges Perec's novel La Disparition , which appeared for the first time in 1969. Just like in the original, the translator Eugen Helmlé does not use the vowel e , thus creating a leipogram . La Disparition is an important work of potential literature ; besides German, it has also been translated into Spanish ( El secuestro , 1997), Swedish ( Försvinna , 2000), English ( A Void , Gilbert Adair 1995, and A Vanishing ), ins Translated into Russian ( Исчезание , 2005) and into Croatian ( Ispario , 2012). All translations are leipograms and do without the most common letter in the respective language (in English and Swedish e , in Spanish a , in Russian о , in Croatian e ).

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Preface

The government's dependence on the United States and an impending famine are putting the people on the barricades in France. A bloody revolution breaks out and the country falls into chaos.

Cape. 1 Anton Voyl

Anton Voyl has been suffering from insomnia for a long time. A neighbor finally takes him to the hospital, where he is examined and sent to an ear, nose and throat doctor. He has an operation and is in the clinic for eight days. When he is released he is considered cured, but he still cannot sleep. Anton has visions, believes in his imminent death. In one vision he lives as a refugee Ismail on the island of Tahili , as a kind of Robinson Crusoe. A group of travelers arrive and live in an old colonial mansion, Ismail falls in love with Faustina, one of the travelers. But neither Faustina nor the men can perceive Ismail, nor can he make contact with them. Before anything else can happen, the island begins to deteriorate and is eventually destroyed by the monsoons . In order to get his visions under control, Anton begins to write a diary, every day for almost half a year. He also developed the concept for a novel in which the main character, Aigan, an African prince, suffers a fate similar to Oedipus. Only, unlike Oedipus, Aigan suddenly disappears. Anton later reads a newspaper article about Major Didot and Dupont looking for but not finding a stolen envelope containing important internal police information. He finishes his diary with three lines and the mysterious sentence Bring Advocate H., who is constantly smoking in the zoo, eight whiskey of Ia quality. Then Anton Voyl disappeared.

Cape. 2 Hassan Ibn Abbou

Anton Voyl's friend Armaury Conson searches his house and questions the neighbors. He leafed through Anton's books and reads manuscripts that must have been written by Anton, as well as Anton's diary. He is convinced that Anton was kidnapped, but the police do not believe him, but a certain Ottaviani is sent from the Quai d'Orsay (seat of the State Department, use similar to 10 Downing Street ). Armaury thinks about the last sentence in Anton's diary and goes to the zoo, where he meets Olga, who was having an affair with Anton. The two actually meet the lawyer H. and the lawyer Hassan Ibn Abbou, who thinks that 8 Whiskey is a racehorse and promises to give them a manuscript on Monday. Armory meets Ottaviani, and the two see a man being kidnapped, whom Armory mistakenly believes to be the lawyer. They discuss whether Anton really refers to Hassan Ibn Abbou in his final sentence or whether the lawyer wants to deceive them. Armory asks Ottaviani to find out whether the taxi driver Armaud Karamazov knows anything about Anton's disappearance. They arrange to meet for the horse race the next day. The next day, Ottaviani sits in the bistro and meets his superior Aloysius Swann there, he gives him a letter from Consul Alain Gu.rin. The consul demands that no further inquiries be made into the Anton Voyl case. The two talk about the suspects, about Anton's lover Olga, Karamazov, who has installed an alarm system in Anton's car, and Hassan Ibn Abbou, with whom Ottaviani and Conson have an appointment. In the afternoon Ottaviani, Conson and Olga meet at the Longchamp racecourse , but the horse 8 Whiskeys does not win. The three of them return to Paris disappointed and get drunk. Olga becomes sentimental and tells about Anton's puzzling insomnia. The next morning Conson and Ottaviani visit Hassan Ibn Abbou in his villa, as agreed, but before they see him, he is stabbed to death in an adjoining room by a stranger with a poisoned dagger. Conson then searches the lawyer's house and finds the fifth part of Anton's notes in the vault, which he reads that same night. It's a confused story about Ismail and Moby Dick . At Hassan Ibn Abbou's funeral, a stranger tells Conson that the lawyer had trouble with Carpocino, who is also giving a funeral oration. When the coffin falls to the ground, it turns out to be empty. What happened to Hassan's body is not clarified.

literature

  • Anton Voyl's departure. Transl. And epilogue Eugen Helmlé . Diaphanes, Zurich 2013 ISBN 3037343222 (first German 2001-Verlag ), 1986
  • Uwe Schleypen: Writing out of nothing. Contemporary literature and mathematics. The ouvroir de littérature potential . Meidenbauer, Munich 2004 Series: Romania viva, Vol. 1 (Zugl. Diss. Univ. Eichstätt 2004) ISBN 3-89975-036-5