Le Ton Beau de Marot In Praise of the Music of Language |
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| Author:
| Hofstadter, Douglas R. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-465-08643-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 1997 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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Douglas Hofstadter--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner Gödel, Escher, Bach --and a select group of translators, as well as three computer programs, translate a short poem by sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot from its native tongue into English. In analyzing these translations, each distinct and delightful in its own right, translation becomes the perfect metaphor for exploring the nature of human intelligence.
Douglas Hofstadter--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner Gödel, Escher, Bach --and a select group of translators, as well as three computer programs, translate a short poem by sixteenth-century French poet Clément Marot from its native tongue into English. In analyzing these translations, each distinct and delightful in its own right, translation becomes the perfect metaphor for exploring the nature of human intelligence.