Gödel, Escher, Bach - ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band

"Gödel, Escher, Bach" is perhaps the most unusual book of the last quarter of the 20th century. How often does it happen that a previously unknown author writes a few hundred pages in monomaniacal obsession and revolutionizes the intellectual world? A book that became an overnight cult classic and bestseller. The connection between Bach's compositions, Escher's images, and the notorious incompleteness theorem of the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel, whose 100th birthday was celebrated on April 28, 2006, is unusual enough. When Achilles and a tortoise also enter the scene, borrowed from an ancient Greek paradox via Lewis Carroll, we know we are holding a mysterious century-defining book that ultimately revolves around a question that branches into hundreds: How can self-aware sentient beings exist?.