@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0192, 

TITLE={On perceptions in Margaret Duras’ novel Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein: A weak‐quantum theoretical approach to visual perception}, 
  
AUTHOR={Pierre-Yves Turpin, Geneviève Mordant, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Art and Science}, 
	
VOLUME={1}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2017}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/On-perceptions-in-Margaret-Duras-novel-Le-Ravissement-de-Lol-V-Stein-A-weak}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0192}, 
	
ISSN={2515-8767}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Perceptions, and the interplay of visual perceptions in particular, are fundamental to Margaret Duras’ novel Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein.1 The author skillfully guides the reader to follow Lol’s own gaze as she desperately tracks both her former lover and the woman whose gaze had enraptured him, diverting him away from Lol. Tracking these characters, the reader in turn "loses track", and merges with the act of reading itself. We consider the analogous situation in quantum mechanics, in which the observer becomes part of the observed system. Starting from this postulate
enunciated by Niels Bohr, we revisit the function and operation of visual perception from a phenomenological point of view, with reference to the notions of superposition of states, complementarity, entanglement, symmetry and symmetry breaking, as they are defined in quantum mechanics. This reading of the novel is thus at the critical junction of literature, human sciences and natural sciences.}}