I hate it when I can’t find something I learned about long ago and wrote about in my blog. Yesterday, while visiting @[100004459206643:2048:Vitalii Menshutin] and @[100004030638843:2048:Oksana Menshutina], I recalled a book, but only managed to find details about it just now. So, Life. A User Manual by the same author who wrote “A Void” without a single letter “e” (in the original French; the Russian translation has no letter “o”). Thus, about the book “Life, A User’s Manual”.
The entire book is a description of a residential building in Paris. 99 chapters, one for each apartment. 1467 characters. Theoretically, you can start reading from any point (the author suggests following the order). The composition of the novel follows a strict plan. For example, the sequence of descriptions corresponds to the moves of a knight in chess, and situations, objects, colors are arranged according to combinatorial rules. There is a character who goes through the entire novel.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567923739/ref=nosim/completereview
By the way, about “A Void” – here are some interesting reminiscences of the translator: http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2010/106/ki26.html