Le Ton Beau de Marot
In Praise of the Music of Language
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Book Description
... This is a study into translating an untranslatable medieval French poem from
the author of "Goedel, Escher, Bach".
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As thick as an essay, as smooth as a novel. When I started the daunting task of reading this massive book, I would have never imagined how easy it would have proven to be.
Hofstadter manages to talk about a wide array of complicated subjects while keeping a continuous narrative flow: an invite ... (continue)
As thick as an essay, as smooth as a novel. When I started the daunting task of reading this massive book, I would have never imagined how easy it would have proven to be.
Hofstadter manages to talk about a wide array of complicated subjects while keeping a continuous narrative flow: an invite to go on and on, deeper and deeper, into the mysteries of language and translation.
It's hard to tell whether the most fascinating part of this book is its content or its form. Given the time that the author has spent refining both of them, however, I'd settle for a tie.
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