Douglas R. Hofstadter (1997), New York: Basic Books, 632 pp. — https://lccn.loc.gov/97003999
Key takeaways
Filed, not read. Known here by its standard description: the book takes Marot’s 28-line poem and many translations of it by Hofstadter and others, each keeping different constraints (line length, rhyme, tone, register), to argue that translation is a creative act of analogy in which form and content cannot be separated, with chapters that criticise machine translation of its day.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.
Unavailable because no lawful full text could be reached (see the history
note), so no NOTE is filed. The Internet Archive’s copy is a lending copy: a
reading from it needs a borrow, which this record’s agents cannot make.