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A page-turning novel as well as an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World-with more than thirty million copies in print-has fired the imaginations of readers all over the world.
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: “Who are you?” and “Where does the world come from?” From this irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through successive letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while also 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.
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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the greatphilosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s Worldhas fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with morethan twenty million copies in print.
One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school tofind in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: “Who areyou?” and “Where does the world come from?” From that irresistiblebeginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her farbeyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through thoseletters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, coveringSocrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receivingletters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does hermail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use thephilosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far morecomplicated than she could have imagined.
“This long, dense novel, a bestseller in the author’s native Norway, offers a summary history of philosophy embedded in a philosophical mystery disguised as a children’s book-but only sophisticated young adults would be remotely interested. Sophie Amundsen is about to turn 15 when she receives a letter from one Alberto Knox, a philosopher who undertakes to educate her in his craft. Sections in which we read the text of Knox’s lessons to Sophie about the pre-Socratics, Plato and St. Augustine alternate with those in which we find out about Sophie’s life with her well-meaning mother. Soon, though, Sophie begins receiving other, stranger missives addressed to one Hilde Moller Knag from her absent father, Albert. As Alberto Knox’s lessons approach this century, he and Sophie come to suspect that they are merely characters in a novel written by Albert for his daughter. Teacher and pupil hatch a plot to understand and possibly escape from their situation; and from there, matters get only weirder. Norwegian philosophy professor Gaarder’s notion of making a history of philosophy accessible is a good one. Unfortunately, it’s occasionally undermined by the dry language he uses to describe the works of various thinkers and by an idiosyncratic bias that gives one paragraph to Nietzsche but dozens to Sartre, breezing right by Wittgenstein and the most influential philosophy of this century, logical positivism. Many readers, regardless of their age, may be tempted to skip over the lessons, which aren’t well integrated with the more interesting and unusual metafictional story line. Author tour.”
–Publishers Weekly
作者简介
Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952. He taught high-school philosophy for several years before publishing a collection of short stories in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, his first two novels, The Solitaire Mystery and Sophie’s World, and several others since then. He lives in Oslo with his family.
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