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A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scholar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St. Augustine from a woman he renounced for chastity? Vita Brevis is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St. Augustine. Gaarder's interpretation of Floria's letter is as playful, inventive and questioning as Sophie's World .
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Vita Brevis, Jostein Gaarder
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- 1997
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- Title
- Vita Brevis
- Subtitle
- Floria Aemilia's Letter to Aurel Augustine
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jostein Gaarder
- Publisher
- Phoenix House
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 164
- ISBN10
- 1861590504
- ISBN13
- 9781861590503
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Literary Fiction, Scandinavian Literature, Letters, Norwegian literature, Epistolary Novels, Saint Augustine, 354-430
- First published
- 1996
- Original title
- Vita Brevis
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scholar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St. Augustine from a woman he renounced for chastity? Vita Brevis is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St. Augustine. Gaarder's interpretation of Floria's letter is as playful, inventive and questioning as Sophie's World .