I am currently looking at novels by Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, Jorge
Comensal, Anna Burns, Sarah Bernstein and others for their treatment of the motif of attending. My aim is to put in relief the way fiction stages the transition from the world available to the senses to the outcomes of the cognitive processing with which a subject engages with that world. The process entails loss and distortion. It sheds light on the biological and culturally automated steps that make characters blind or myopic. By showing us how and why others fail to see, these authors invite us to see better.