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Lipogram
· from Greek
What is a lipogram?
A lipogram is a text written while deliberately avoiding one or more letters, most famously the letter e.
Georges Perec's 1969 French novel La Disparition contains no e at all, and its English translation A Void kept the constraint. Ernest Vincent Wright's 1939 novel Gadsby did the same in English. Lipograms are a favourite exercise of the Oulipo group of constrained writers.
Examples
La Disparition (Georges Perec, 1969, no e); Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright, 1939, no e)
Kungfucius says: An entire novel without the letter e. Most people cannot write a text message without an emoji.