She felt that this approach illuminated a fundamental truth about language: The very act of using language, she once told an interviewer, involves a ‘castration. The moment we utter a sentence, we’re leaving out a lot.’
A “nanopress” has begun reissuing the work of novelist, poet, and essayist Christine Brooke-Rose, who died in 2012. The author of metafictional, experimental sci-fi believed she should be remembered alongside the likes of George Perec. If you don’t know Perec’s name, you’ve probably heard of at least one of his works—La Disparition, which was written without a single “e.” Similarly, one of Brooke-Rose’s novels, Between, omitted the verb “to be.” Another, Next, omitted “to have.”
