Livro O Mundo de Sofia, by Jostein Gaarder: summary and considerations

O World of Sofia It is a book about the history of philosophy written by Norwegian Jostein Gaarder. Its first edition was launched in 1991, leaving Brazil for four years.

Gaarder introduces us to a fictional romance about a chamada girl Sofia who, for a few years, goes on to reflect on great existential mysteries. Those questões chegamaté I tied through a professor who began our philosophical studies.

Assim, or author manages to combine ficção with a pedagogical writing on the costume of the philosophical thought of the Ocidente from ancient times to contemporary.

Or free, which presents in the first version 234 pages in 35 chapters, with a huge success, being translated into more than 50 languages ​​and transformed into a Norwegian film.

Summary of O World of Sofia

Context of history

History goes back to the 90s and the main person is Sofia Amundsen, a 14-year-old girl who lives in Norway with her country.

In reality, your country does not appear in the narrative, you work on ships and you are always traveling. Assim, Garota divides the days with her mother, Helene Amundsen.

As intriguing questions

When she is about to complete 15 years, she finds in her mail box a letter containing two seemingly simple questions: "Quem é você?" and "Qual a origem do mundo?".

From these questions, Sofia began to think about the world and its existence. She happens to receive other mysterious correspondence, which in reality were apostilles of a course in philosophy.

You postais cards

Parallel to the philosophy course, Sofia also found that there were no unusual postais letters addressed to Hilde Knag, a 15-year-old girl.

We are sending you Albert Knag, Hilde's father, who is on a mission to serve the UN, not Lebanon. Sofia then receives the responsibility of delivering these cards to Hilde.

Or teacher of the teachings on philosophy

After a first moment of suspense, it was revealed that the person who sent the philosophy course to Garota is Alberto Knox, a professor of philosophy from meia idade.

From then on, Sofia becomes a kind of apprentice to Alberto, who teaches him about the history of philosophy in a didactic and surprising way. You two percorrem together a costume of thinkers from the pre-Socratic period to contemporary philosophers.

Or the teacher strives to pass his knowledge, fantasizing about time clothes and raising men to similar places as the contexts of two periods that he is studying.

Or discard of O World of Sofia

While this is so, Sofia continues to receive the correspondence written by Albert Knag and tries to discover, together with Alberto, or mystery through the letters.

They then learned that they are imprisoned within a freedom of philosophy that Albert is making a save for Hilde (entitled O World of Sofia) and I managed to escape during the 15-year-old party protagonist.

Considerations on O World of Sofia

O World of Sofia It is a book thought as an introduction to philosophical studies. For this reason, the protagonist is a young man in a growth phase who, like any adolescent, has dilemmas and dilemmas typical of his faixa age.

The author uses this resource as a form of identification with his / her public alvo. Either way, or free it can also be very well used by adults, by drawing valuable knowledge.

The protagonist does not give me an escort for this reason, Sofia is a word that in Greek means "wise". Addressing or content of this literary work is, in truth, going through all the phases of western philosophical thought.

I do not free, they are treated in chapters each period or thinker. Assim, we have a rather didactic appendage on various subjects. Or firstly, I say I respect the myths, since I have been presented as primitive societies, we will explain events by means of symbols and stories.

Depois, it is false about you pré-Socratics, called "philosophers of nature", those who saw before Socrates, um deles é Democritus.

From day to day he addresses the teachings of Socrates, Platão, Aristotle, as well as dealing with philosophy in Idade Media, Renascença, Baroque and other periods. It also addresses Descartes, Espinosa, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Bjerkely, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Darwin and Freud.

Either content of the work and displayed as a background cloth, a slight entanglement, or that makes reading more accessible. In the meantime, ao passed that the reader is advancing our chapters and demanded more.

Or author gives some dicas, saying for example that Garota needed a certain time to understand some conceit, or that can be understood as a suggestion for the reader to reread some chapter or dedicate more time to some passagem.

Phrases present I do not free

Whether or not the sea is calm on the surface, it does not mean that something is not happening at the depths.

Nessa phrase, and exhibited to the idea that, just as it is not possible to access all the truth, there are things happening in the world that fogem gives us understanding and knowledge.

Assim, or author uses a metaphor, which can be applied both to seek understanding of the world and of ourselves.

Let's summarize: a white coelho is pulled from within a cartola. And because it is about a very big coelho, this trick took billions of years to happen. All of these babies are born with two fine hairs of the coelho. Because of this, they will be delighted with the impossibility of the magic number they attend. But as it grows thicker, the vão creeps more and more to the inside of the coat. E ficam for the. The embassy is so comfortable that it is not necessary to go up to put two fine hairs at the top. Only philosophers have used to launch this day on the limits of language and existence. Some of them weren't at the end, but others grabbed onto the hairs of the coelho and berram for the people who are embroiled, not comforting the skin, sticking to the belly of food and drink.

This is one of the most important passages of the book. Here, the author draws another allegory to explain the importance of cultivating a critical thought.

Gaarder drew the figure of coelho in order to exemplify how people end up accommodating their lives, Entering the hairs of the coelho and deixando de fazer Essenciais questions about the world and its own existence.

To ideia and provoke the readers to unfold instigating thoughts that maintain enthusiasm for life, as well as provavelmente tinham na mais tenra infância.

It all depends on the type of lens you use to see things.

A lens to which the writer refers, na true, or type of olhar that we develop to or examine certain situations.

I do not livro, a garota acquires a vermelho oculos that in the face of hardening everything in damaged tons, also, the barnacle that depending on the "lens" that we place in our nossos as things are altered.

Ou seja, depending on our capacity for analysis, we can perceive things that previously went unnoticed.

Film O World of Sofia

Erik Gustavson is the director of the film adaptation of the romance. The film was released in 1999 and was shown the most in Norway, not after much recognition in other countries.

In the meantime, it was transformed later into a miniseries and passed on to Australian television.

A production with an hour and a half of duration and the cast and composed by Silje Storstein, Tomas Von Brömssen and Andrine Saether.

Quem é Jostein Gaarder?

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian writer, theologian and professor of philosophy. He was born in 1952 and in 1986, he created his first free, but was born in 1991 that he won projeção com O World of Sofia, becoming-known internationally.

Other titles of note of the author são:

• O Pássaro Raro (1986)
• O dia do coringa (1991)
• Mystery of Natal (1992)
• Through the spelho (1993)
• A vida é breve (1996)
• Or seller of stories (2001)
• A garota das laranjas (2003)
• Maya (2012)

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