Quotes from book
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".

Douglas Hofstadter photo

“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

Similar authors

Douglas Hofstadter photo
Douglas Hofstadter17
American professor of cognitive science 1945
Herbert A. Simon photo
Herbert A. Simon58
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p… None
Daniel Kahneman photo
Daniel Kahneman51
Israeli-American psychologist None
Isaac Asimov photo
Isaac Asimov303
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… None
Carl Sagan photo
Carl Sagan365
American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science ed… None
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robert A. Heinlein557
American science fiction author None
Noam Chomsky photo
Noam Chomsky334
american linguist, philosopher and activist None
Joseph E. Stiglitz photo
Joseph E. Stiglitz39
American economist and professor, born 1943. None
Elinor Ostrom photo
Elinor Ostrom4
American political economist None
Arthur C. Clarke photo
Arthur C. Clarke207
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, u… None