Vita Brevis

Floria Aemilia's Letter to Aurel Augustine

Autor*innen

• Jostein Gaarder

Parameter

• 164 Seiten
• 6 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Historische Romane
• Nordische Literatur
• Philosophisches Thema
• Religiöse Themen

Mehr zum Buch

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 .

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Einband: Hardcover