Strange Loops of Translation

One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter''s notion of “strange loops,” from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot, where he draws on his cognitive science research. And yet he ha...