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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, Nabokov'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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Translating and interpreting, Übersetzung, Prosodie, Lied, Vertalen, LyrikShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
May 1998, Basic Books
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Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language
1997, Basic Books
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Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
1997, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Le Ton Beau De Marot
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