Sophie Amundsen is fourteen when she finds an envelope in her mailbox with a single question: "Who are you?" More notes follow, then lessons from the philosopher Alberto Knox, which take her from Thales and Democritus through Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Spinoza to Kant and Freud. Meanwhile postcards for a girl named Hilde Møller Knag appear in the story and raise unsettling questions about reality. Jostein Gaarder uses a novel to cover about two and a half thousand years of Western philosophy.
A good gift for teenagers, and one that adults who never studied philosophy can pick up. It has humour, an unusual twist and clear explanations.
Deep; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Deep Diver. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Companhia das Letras
- ISBN
- 9788571644755
- Language
- PT
