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| Original Title: | Sofies verden: roman om filosofiens historie |
| ISBN: | 1857993284 (ISBN13: 9781857993288) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Darwin, Cecilia Skotbu, Malaikat Ariel, Plato, Aristotle, Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, St. Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Sofie Amundsen, Jorunn, Jesus, Immanuel Kant, Socrates (philosopher), Sigmund Freud |
| Literary Awards: | Buxtehuder Bulle (1996), Premio Bancarella (1995), Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for Jugendbuch (1994), Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (1996), دار المنى Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser for Jugendbuch (1997), Premio San Clemente for Novela Estranxeira (1996), Prime Minister of Pakistan's Award for Literature |
Jostein Gaarder
Paperback | Pages: 403 pages Rating: 3.92 | 184415 Users | 10174 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sophie's World |
| Author | : | Jostein Gaarder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 403 pages |
| Published | : | 1995 by Phoenix (first published December 5th 1991) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Contemporary. Cultural. Literary Fiction |
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An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here 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.Rating Based On Books Sophie's World
Ratings: 3.92 From 184415 Users | 10174 ReviewsEvaluate Based On Books Sophie's World
Took me a while to complete this book. But it was totally worth it.The two things this book has going for it are: the plot and narrative frame are original and creative, and the story is more informative than most. The basic premise is that a 14-year-old Norwegian girl embarks on a correspondence course with a philosopher, and he teaches her the major points of Western philosophy, from the ancient Greeks up until the existentialists. What makes the narrative structure more original than your average novel is that everything becomes very meta and
I have started reading the English translation then I compared it to two other Arabic ones, and that was confusing as GOD, then I scheduled it again and againبدأت القراءة في نسخة الترجمة الإنجليزية لأن أحدهم أفاد بأن الترجمة العربية سيئة ثم قلت لنفسي "بلاش انجليزي أنا مش قد كدا" وتراجعت للعربية ثم رجعت للإنجليزية من جديد. "Thus was the confusing inside me - هكذا كان الصراع بداخلي" وهكذا ضُرب علي الذل وتم تأجيل القراءة عدة مرات!... أولاً بجانب الترجمة الإنجليزية فالكتاب كان متاح لي بترجمتين
I enjoyed the book immensely. I studied basic philosophy in college so I soon became aware that many philosophers were left out and whole era's were glossed over in this book. You know, that's OK. One - It's not a text book and two - It's NOT a text book!The stories are separate and finally come together in a fairly predictable way. It is a bit didactic, but imagine yourself a very bright, curious, thoughtful and sensitive 14, 15 or 16 year-old struggling with the usual thoughts and feelings of
***NO SPOILERS***(Full disclosure: Book abandoned on page 234 [out of 394 pages].)The premise for Sophie's World is ingenious. It's a story about Sophie Amundsen, a sweet fourteen-year-old Norwegian girl who one day begins receiving mysterious letters. The letters are addressed to a girl named Hilde, a girl who sounds just like Sophie, right down to age--yet they come to Sophie's house and are meant for her.These are highly unusual letters. They're about philosophy and the history of philosophy,
I'm not sure how to rate this book. As a novel, there were many things that irked me: the dialogue was unnatural, the characters poorly built, and the narration was uninteresting. However, as a simplified re-counting of the history of Western Philosophy, it was extremely easy and enjoyable to read. I appreciate how I finally managed to understand some philosophers who have always eluded me (hello, Hegel). It was not terribly long -like History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, which
This has been an upsetting reread because I've found that though the book is a quiet entity on its own and in the mind of its readers, I was left hungry for more, but I was also balanced. For years after I read this book, which changed my life for the better, I thought it was the best read of the world.Naive that I was, I also thought back then, that all philosophy books were as digestible as Sophie's World. What a delusion! The book is now slow and uncouth, being cut from the same cloth as
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