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Alphabetical Africa : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alphabetical Africa
''Alphabetical Africa'' is a constrained writing experiment by Walter Abish. It is written in the form of a novel. A paperback edition was issued in New York by New Directions Publishing Corporation in 1974 with ISBN 0-8112-0533-9. It was still in print in 2004. == The Constraint ==
The writing is restricted by a pseudo-alliterative rule: the first chapter contains only words starting with the letter ''a'', the second chapter only words starting with ''a'' or ''b'', etc.; each subsequent chapter adds the next letter in the alphabet to the set of allowed word beginnings. This continues for the first 25 chapters, until at last Abish is (briefly) allowed to write without constraint. In the second half of the book, through chapter 52, letters are removed in the reverse order that they were added. Thus, ''z'' words disappear in chapter 27, ''y'' in chapter 28, etc...
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