La disparition

«D'abord, il produisait un “vrai” roman, mais aussi il s'amusait» (from the post-scriptum)

And that was obvious throughout. I heard about the book when i was a teen, it took me ten years to find it in a bookstore and another ten to finally read it. I thought it would be an exercise, a group of texts or poems, but i did not expect to read an actual novel with an interesting plot and very silly humour. Perec was not struggling with the condition he forced on himself but he was enjoying every bifurcation, taking the plot along with him. And you enjoy with him his choices; the loan words, the switching of languages, the continuous lists, the puns, the meta references to the missing letter... a very enjoyable book that should be taken as it was intended, a playground of a writer.