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Le Ton beau de Marot

Douglas Hofstadter

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a 1997 book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation. The book is a long and detailed examination of one short translation of a minor French poem, and through that an examination of the mysteries of translation itself. Hofstadter himself refers to it as "my ruminations on the art of translation".

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“The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.”

Douglas Hofstadter book Le Ton beau de Marot

Le Ton beau de Marot (1997) chapter 8 p. 234

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