Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

Douglas R. Hofstadter

632 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Lost in an art—the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty...

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challenging 66%
informative 66%
inspiring 66%
reflective 66%
adventurous 33%
funny 33%
sad 33%

Pace

slow 100%

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