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The Power of Positivity
According to neurosciences, positivity increases cognitive ability. Our perceptive capacities are sharpened when we associate them with...
Ekphrasis and Cognitive Capacities
I gave two conferences on ekphrasis in November and spoke about the links between this rhetorical art and the neurosciences. It was...
Poetry's Appeal
Poetry's power to move us depends on the harmonious blending of the meaning with the music of the verse lines. That is why it is...
Of Mice and Men
What struck me most in this play performed by the Genevan Drama Society was the manner in which men destroy their transitional objects...
Our Plasticity
I attended a conference on the converge of neurosciences with psychoanalysis and discovered that the most important sector in which these...
Dürer's Melancholy
I am honoured to be published in The Geneva Writers' Literary Magazine "Offshoots 14" with a sonnet dedicated to Dürer's etching...
The Unpredictable
The unpredictable in life is full of surprises: this term can be defined in many ways: learning a new language, translating, revising...
Identity
I think that one of the most important paradigms of the writing life is the theme of identity. As writers, we can express our identity in...
Translating Poetry
Translating poetry can be a very hard task if one does not give the necessary importance to word-nuances. By that I mean that almost...