"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. "
Warren Motte is among the most vibrant and resourceful critics of French contemporary fiction in the world today. Professor of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 with a dissertation on Georges Perec, which eventually became the first critical book on Perec published anywhere. He is the author of five books of scholarly criticism, editor of an anthology of writings by the Oulipo (the international ...
The contemporary important writing not of alphabetic type is that in Chinese characters, in which thousands of symbols are used, each representing a word or concept, and Japanese, where each character represents a syllable.