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27 Comments to "Le Train de Nulle Part, A Novel Written Without Verbs"
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Brian Lutz
May 8th, 2008 at
11:26 am
I can think of plenty of adjectives that could be used to describe this whole idea… None of them printable here.
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M Ichael
May 8th, 2008 at
12:03 pm
Funny, you can’t “take away the verbs” without a verb, can you?
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Richard Milward
May 8th, 2008 at
12:14 pm
Reminds me of the novel “Gadsby”, which was written without using the letter “e”…
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L
May 8th, 2008 at
12:17 pm
Now someone needs to write one without nouns…
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blumaroo
May 8th, 2008 at
12:22 pm
Reminds me of the book “Eunoia” by Christian Bok. Each chapter is written using only one of the vowels. Reads like beat poetry.
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Alecks
May 8th, 2008 at
12:56 pm
How ridiculous! An entire book without verbs… Such madness… Michel Thaler, you nut.
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Rich
May 8th, 2008 at
1:13 pm
c’est impossible… mais voilà!
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Camille
May 8th, 2008 at
1:24 pm
Reminds me of Georges Perec’s book La Disparition, 300 pages written without the letter “e”. Brilliant novel by the way.
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Vako
May 8th, 2008 at
1:35 pm
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
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Comstock
May 8th, 2008 at
1:43 pm
yucko! Seemed cute until I got to the pompous and nonsensical explanation about verbs, flowers, and language.
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cuimhne
May 8th, 2008 at
2:12 pm
Why is everyone so negative?
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sparge
May 8th, 2008 at
2:32 pm
Ah, but doesn’t the colon represent the word “is”?
Besides, shouldn’t a novel be more like a field of wildflowers? If I want a nice, cultivated literary garden, I’ll go read a poem.
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sparge
May 8th, 2008 at
2:36 pm
OK, reading some of the passages on the link, it seems like much of the time verbs are implied, but not explicitly written.
Also, though I know little about French, I have a feeling that the writing works better in its native language.
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Jacques
May 8th, 2008 at
2:49 pm
cuimhne, how about: why so negative, everyone?
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Orjan S Morjan
May 8th, 2008 at
3:28 pm
MS Word would go haywire on that.
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day
May 8th, 2008 at
3:34 pm
Read Erich Fromm’s ‘To Be or To Have’.
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Sid Morrison
May 8th, 2008 at
3:56 pm
Cormac McCarthy’s broken English writing gets fairly close….
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Stolia
May 8th, 2008 at
5:05 pm
Great! A novelty book! I needed something to put on my coffee table next to my Elvis candy dish and banana phone.
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HeartlessMachine
May 8th, 2008 at
6:20 pm
“The verb __ like a weed in a field of flowers. You ____ __ ___ ___ __ it to _____ the flowers to ____ and ________. ____ ____ the verbs and the language ______ for itself.”
This dead field of flowers… More fertilizer, please.
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Ashley
May 9th, 2008 at
12:20 am
Agree with HeartlessMachine. He refuses to write in verbs, yet speaks in them? I don’t mind a publicity stunt or an exercise in constrained writing, but don’t make it loftier than it is.
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ted
May 9th, 2008 at
1:20 am
It would be very annoying after two paragraphs.
If it becomes a book on tape, they could get William Shatner to read it.
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Jack B
May 9th, 2008 at
2:10 am
Fragment (Consider Revising)
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astrodex
May 9th, 2008 at
6:40 am
What starts out as a writing class exercise becomes a pretentious published novel.
Too much fertilizer, not enough weeds.
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sparge
May 9th, 2008 at
7:21 am
LOL @ Jack B!
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Viola
May 9th, 2008 at
10:52 am
lol Word
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mcintudt
May 9th, 2008 at
11:40 am
Hey, no french verb conjugation to struggle through. Sounds easier to read. 14 verbs tenses all ignored for my reading pleasure.
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drHoward
May 11th, 2008 at
12:24 am
English has lots of nouns and a few verbs. Chompksy on his study of language found that the Navaho language is mostly verbs/adjectives with a few nouns. He said the type of language we use dictates the way we think.
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