Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau

From my notes:

On October 29, 1976, the day after Queneau's funeral, his friend and Oulipian colleague Georges Perec began his magnum opus, Life: A User's Manual (La Vie mode d'emploi).

Perec had joined the already well established Oulipo in 1967, and seemed very much to follow Queneau's lead. Queneau's interest in lipograms, especially classical ones such as those by Pindar, was already established; in 1969 Perec wrote La Disparition (A Void), an entire novel composed without the letter "e".