Le Ton beau de Marot

in praise of the music of language

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Le Ton beau de Marot

in praise of the music of language

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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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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
632

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Cover of: Le Ton Beau De Marot
Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
May 1998, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: Le Ton beau de Marot
Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language
1997, Basic Books
in English
Cover of: Ton Beau de Marot
Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
1997, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
Cover of: Le Ton Beau De Marot
Le Ton Beau De Marot
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-606) and index.
Includes the text of Clément Marot's A une damoyselle malade with numerous English translations.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
418/.02
Library of Congress
P306 .H63 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 632 p. :
Number of pages
632

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL658780M
Internet Archive
letonbeaudemarot00hofs
ISBN 10
0465086438
LCCN
97003999
OCLC/WorldCat
36225295
Library Thing
27852
Goodreads
1331221

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