Name: Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) (in English)
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Author: Jostein Gaarder
ISBN: 9780374530716

portada Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jostein Gaarder

Translated by

Paulette Møller

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

544

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.0 x 3.2 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0374530718

ISBN13

9780374530716

Edition No.

Synopsis "Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (Fsg Classics) (in English)"

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Jostein Gaarder

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Jostein Gaarder (Oslo, 1952) fue profesor de Filosofía y de Historia de las Ideas en un instituto de Bergen durante diez años. En 1986 empezó a publicar libros, y en 1990 recibió el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio literario del Ministerio de Cultura noruegos por su novela El misterio del solitario. Pero fue El mundo de Sofía la obra que se convirtió en un auténtico bestseller mundial y que ha sido galardonada en España con los premios Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente y Conde de Barcelona.

Gaarder creó la Fundación Sofía, cuyo premio anual dotaba económicamente a la mejor labor innovadora a favor del medioambiente y el desarrollo. Entre su extensa obra cabe destacar, además de las novelas ya mencionadas, El diagnóstico, El misterio de Navidad, El enigma del espejo, Vita brevis, Maya, El vendedor de cuentos, La joven de las naranjas y El hombre de las marionetas.

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