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"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."
- Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784)
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ZIN Product Number: 10124148
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 632 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465086454
Release Date: Jan 8, 1982
| |  | | | In Brief
Using the poem "A une damoyselle malade" "by 16th-century French poet Clement Marot as a compass, Hofstadter {addresses} . . . issues related to theact and product of translating. . . . {They include such questions} as what is translation? How does the translator cross cultures? Who can judge the validity of the translated product? When is a translation more than repackaging onevocabulary with another? Where does the reader/listener comprehend that thereis an original behind the translation?" (Libr J) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
Not Merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry - but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words. Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Villon's ballades, Nobokov's essays, Georges Perec's La disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate. Horace's odes, and more. Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack up next to the human mind.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
The problems Hofstadter encountered translating a ditty by the 16th-century French poet Clment Marot led him to solicit other versions of the poem from a range of friends and colleagues, and thence to the writing of this vast, curious, and obsessive tome--at once a highly opinionated history of artificial intelligence research, a meditation on language and meaning (with special attention to lipograpms), and a tribute to his late wife. The book is a folly, but a fantastic one for all that
| |  | | | | Introduction: In Joy and in Sorrow | | | A une Damoyselle malade | | | To a Sick Damsel | | | My Sweet Maid | | | My Sweet/Cute [One] (Feminine) | | | My Small Princess; Touchstones | | | My Sweet Dear | | | Cutie Pie | | | Fairest Friend | | | Fairest Friend (II) | | | To My Sweet | | | My Dear Sue | | | On Ye, Childe; On Ye, Child | | | O My Sweet | | | Honey Bun | | | Lover Mine | | | Sugar Lump; Sugar Lump Flip Flop | | | Dearest Dear | | | Sweet Sue | | | Sweetmeat Sue | | | Meat-sweet Sue | | | Sweet Sue (II) | | | Love | | | My Minion | | | Dear, Your Bard; Your Old Bard | | | Hey, Chick | | | Good Morning, Little Hon' | | | Hi Toots! | | | Mots-cles marrants | | | Fun Key-words | | | Funky Words | | | Funky Mots | | | Charms of Forms | | | You My Sweet | | | Pet of Mine | | | Kiddo, Hi! | | | Hurry, Love | | | Pretty Dear | | | Pretty One | | | My Petite | | | My Pet, Eat | | | Pal Petite | | | Little Gem | | | Lintle Gem; Gintle Gem | | | Gentle Gem | | | Goldilocks | | | Turtle Dove | | | My Wee One | | | Babe o'Mine; Darlin' Mine | | | Hey, Hot Lips! | | | To a Damsel in Bed | | | To the End | | | Mia Adorata; My Dear Adored; My Cherie | | | Bambina Mia; My Sweet Bambino | | | Mia Coco; O Pumpkin Mine | | | Kleines Mein; Fraulein Mine | | | Angel Moi; My Angel; Angel Mine | | | Salut, Ma Vieille; Old Gal, God Bless | | | Mignonnette; Mignonnette | | | Mademoiselle | | | My Mignonne | | | My Honey | | | O Sweeting Mine | | | Yo There Dog! | | | Gentle Cow | | | 3-6-1-2 | | | So Long, Dad | | | My Nice | | | My Cute | | | My Flapper | | | My Treasure | | | Sino Room | | | Mom in Yon | | | Carol Dear | | | Chickadee | | | Conclusion: Le Tombeau de ma rose | | | Notes | | | Bibliography | | | Permissions and Acknowledgments | | | Index | |
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