"Books you were going to write with letters for titles. Have you read his F? O yes, but I prefer Q. Yes, but W is wonderful. O yes, W. Remember your epiphanies on green oval leaves, deeply deep, copies to be sent if you died to all the great libraries of the world, including Alexandria."(Ulysses, James Joyce)
How many people have used single letters to title their books? Can we get one for each letter of the alphabet? What effect is caused by using this abstract technique?
I can only think of two to begin with, but I'm sure there are plenty more:
Luther Blissett - QThomas Pynchon - V
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
c!
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
this was in chatz once iirc?
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, Thomas McCarthy - C
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
xpost ha, maybe. It's something I idly wonder about every now and then.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Or rather just Tom McCarthy. (Confusing him with the American actor/director.)
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m8wmE.jpg
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Matt Beaumont - e
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QAQMk.jpg
has anyone read pelevin? (xxyyzz?)
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.abebooks.com/books/single-letter-title-shortest-mccarthy/warhol-updike.shtml
― flexidisc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
John Updike - S.
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
xp Well, there you are.
― jaymc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
missing from that list I linked
I.--Stephen Dixon
― flexidisc, Monday, 12 December 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
John Berger - G.
― youtube cover, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
yes he is amazing one of my favorite current writers
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think "t" has been translated yet tho...?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
none of these books is what Stephen D had in mind tho :(
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:30 (twelve years ago) link