Le Ton beau de Marot
in praise of the music of language
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Author
Contributions
- Marot, Clément, 1495?-1544. - Contributor
Publication
1997 - Basic Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
158,000 words, Guess
Page Count
632 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL658780M
- ISBN-100465086438
- OCLC Control Number36225295
- OCLC Control Numberletonbeaudemarot00hofs
- Library of Congress Control Number97003999
and 2 more
- LibraryThing27852
- Goodreads1331221
Classifications
- DDC418/.02
- LCCP306 .H63 1997
Description
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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- Le Ton beau de Marot: in praise of the music of language
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