Manifestos and A Void

This week’s readings started with the third section of A Void by Georges Perec and “Lipo: First and Second Manifestos” by Francois Le Lionnais. The part from Le Lionnais’s essay that stood out to me was when he was talking about the principal tendencies toward Analysis and Synthesis. Le Lionnais points out the difference in saying that the analytic tendency references back to past works in order to find possibilities that exceed what those authors had anticipated. The synthetic tendency, on the other hand, is the finding of many possibilities for exploration. In light of the book A Void, I think that it is a combination of both synthesis and analysis because it is allowing its readers to explore the many possibilities within the context and the form of the book itself at the same time it is exceeding the possibilities of constraints.