Analyzes the various translations of an obscure French poem to show the endless complexity of humans and their languages

Autorentext
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gödel, Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas, The Mind's I, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.

Klappentext

Artificial intelligence pioneer Douglas R. Hofstadter celebrates the infinite subtleties of human creativity through language and translation in this brilliant successor to his GODEL, ESCHER, BACH. French poet Clement Marot's tiny poem "A une Damoyselle malade", written some 400 years ago, is the unlikely launching point for Hofstadter's latest exploration of the power of human thought.

Zusammenfassung
This text presents a translation of a short poem by 16th-century French poet Clement Marot.

Inhalt

• Introduction: In Joy and in Sorrow The Life in Rhymes of Clment Marot For the Love of a Poem from Days Long, Long Gone How Jolly the Lot of an Oligoglot The Romantic Vision of Thought as Pattern Sparkling and Sparkling, Thanks to Constraints The Subtle Art of Transculturation The Nimble Medium-hopping of Evanescent Essences A Novel in Verse A Vile Non-verse On Words and Their Magical Halos Halos, Analogies, Spaces, and Blends On the Conundrums of Cascading Translation On Shy Translators and Their Crafty, Silent Art On the Untranslatable On the Ununderstandable Ai Aims, Mi Claims, Sino-room Flames In Praise of the Music of Language Conclusion: Le Tombeau de ma rose