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Book Title: Sophie’s World
Book Author: Jostein Gaarder
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, YA
First Published: December 1991

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— Jostien Gaardner pp. 91-92

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Thrown together for three days on the paradise island of Taveuni, a lonely Norwegian biologist, a bereaved English novelist, and a strange and beautiful Spanish couple so much in love they seem to have evolved a private language, fill the long Pacific nights by playing bridge, telling stories, and discussing ideas. This brief encounter is no mere interlude, but the start of an intertwined story, full of illusion and allusion, that will unfold many months later. Part tragedy, part mystery, show more and, above all, a love story, Maya debates and unravels the questions that give meaning to the lives of its characters-and to our own. Jostein Gaarder is the author of Sophie's World, a huge bestseller in over 40 countries.show less

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This is really the first "philosophy" book I've read, and I'm not sure what to make of it, honestly. The initial part of this book, in which the background hints that there is a bit of a mystery are given, to me had a little bit of a gothic mystery feel. Everything seems normal on top, but underneath, there's something just not quite right. It had me intrigued, and was enough of an intrigue to allow me to read through this book in the better part of a day and a half, despite some very de

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Multiple Worlds in Juvenile Fiction: Lewis Carroll, Michael Ende, Jostein Gaarder
Multiple Worlds in Juvenile Fiction: Lewis Carroll, Michael Ende, Jostein Gaarder

Author(s): Mihaela Cernăuţi-Gorodeţchi
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: fiction; imaginary worlds; sense of living

Summary/Abstract: The parallel universe imagined (in cultural and historical different contexts) by authors of works of fiction “for youth”, such as Lewis Carroll (in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, On the other side of the mirror and what Alice found there or Sylvie and Bruno), Michael Ende (in Neverending Story) and Jostein Gaarder (in Sophie’s World. A Novel about the History of Philosophy), show a disturbing similarity: soon or late, the pleasure of greatness runs to fear, because all these imaginary worlds intersect and mix up to the confusion with the real world and therefore the protagonist of the spiritual adventure begins to feel himself lost in a real labyrinth of projections and reflections. Alice, Bastian, Sophie and the other confused heroes, completely immersed in the absurd, have only one hope to escape this yawning abyss: search (and find) an integrative sense, and through above all onto