Poetry, science and hope in the Prose des cellules HeLa (prose for the HeLa cells) in Marcel Thiry’s poetic work ; Poésie, science et espérance : la Prose des cellules HeLa dans l’œuvre de Marcel Thiry

International audience ; If the process of natural sciences, so-called “exact sciences”, can be enlightened by theology and philosophy, it can also be seen by a literary gaze, and in this case by a poetic approach. A work published in 1969 by the Belgian poet Marcel Thiry, entitled Prose des cellules HeLa (prose for the HeLa cells), shows the possibility for knowledges to hold a dialogue which brings out their complementary nature. Using resources of various worldviews (myths from Greek Antiquity, Christian narrative traditions, media imagery of the sixties, even another work he was writing at... Mehr ...