Walter Abish,
Alphabetical Africa: Running the gamut (or is it gauntlet?) from A to Z and back again; the constraint (of which one is always aware, or one of them anyway, as others seem to be in force at times, provisionally, checking as one progresses) interacts with the story in curious ways, surprisingly richly; even so, the conceit gets in the way, however ingenious the ways around it (but then something Dictionary Johnson said about dogs comes to mind): All in,
+, maybe
Add: I see complete-review has
its say along these lines.