Customer Review: I've been dipping this book with pleasure and occasional exasperation. It's an exploration of the difficulties of translating from one language to another. Like his earlier book, it's long, incredibly brainy and quite difficult to read. I couldn't get through all 630 large pages so I dipped here and... more info
Customer Review: Hofstadter provides effectively a series of articles published elsewhere, edited in his engaging, verbose style.
Basically the question of the book how would a computer solve the following:
"X:x as Y:?"
You can get much more complex, but basically his group spents the 80's and... more info
Customer Review: This book seemed menacing when I picked it up for the first time. Its cover is complex and bears a striking resemblance to a great number of occult and metaphysical classics. That said, this book was inviting from the first sentence. I did not at all expect to laugh out loud to a book with a title... more info
Customer Review: For anyone who has read Le Ton Beau de Marot, this book is a must buy, if only for the introduction which fills in the background of how this translation came to be written. For readers of Hofstadter, it will also be fun to read Pushkin with clear Hofstadter twists, as his style pokes through time... more info
