La letteratura come materia oscura

What do Einstein and Joyce have in common? Both tried to challenge, with different tools, the mystery of Meaning and the Whole. Reading the classics of antiquity or those more modern, in some way, confronts us with the same kind of unpredictability offered by the mysteries that drive science. The starting point of the book lies precisely in this parallel between the composition of language and that of the universe, with its singular phenomena, its obscurities, and its apparent arbitrariness. A literary text, whatever it may be, and regardless of the insights of its creator, its will, or even the conditions under which it comes to light, would be a dead letter if there were no reader to bring it to life. But in science, particularly in the relational interpretation of quantum theory, something similar happens: only when objects interact do we see their properties, which should not be considered, so to speak, intrinsic to things, but rather relative, relational. This led the author to apply some concepts from quantum theory and others derived from the study of the universe. Because «just like in science, in literature too, imagination can be unleashed only in the face of the unknown».