Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas and his father are driving from Norway to Greece in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years before. Along the way, the boy receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But what does the sailor's journey have to do with that of Hans Thomas? And what can both their journeys tell us about our own quest to understand life?

It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion and an enquiring mind. 'Through a Glass, Darkly' will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move and amaze everyone who reads it.

One day Elisabet, while Christmas shopping with her mother, vanishes into thin air. Accompanied by angels, shepherds, kings and even a Roman governor, she is rushing back through time and space to Bethlehem, to be present at the birth of Christ. Fifty years later a boy called Joachim pieces together her story from a magic advent calendar and brings it to a conclusion.

Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he sees around her neck an amber charm—just like the one he gave his own child before she was swept away in a torrent 16 years earlier. This tale is narrated by Petter, a precocious child and a fantasist, and perhaps Jostein Gaarder’s most intriguing creation since Sophie. Petter makes his living selling stories and ideas to authors suffering from writer’s block. It’s a lucrative trade, but as he sits like a spider in the center of his web, Petter finds himself in a trap of his own making. Jostein Gaarder is the author of Sophie's World, a huge bestseller in over 40 countries.

A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Why does Ana bear such a close resemblance to the model for Goya's famous Maja paintings? What is the significance of the Joker as he steps out of his pack of cards? As the action moves from Fiji to Spain, from the present to the past, unfolding further stories within the stories, the novel reveals an astonishing richness and complexity. As bold and imaginative in its sweep as Sophie's World, it shows again that Jostein Gaarder's unique and special gift is to make us wonder at the awe-inspiring mystery of the universe.

A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphral invention by some 17th or 18th century scholar, or a transcript of what it appears to be — hitherto unheard of letters 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. About The Author: Jostein Gaarder was born in Olso, Norway on August 8, 1952. A former high school philosophy teacher, he now writes novels for children and adults. His best known work is Sophie's World. He has received numerous awards including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994 for Sophie's World, the Buxtehude Bulle in 1997, and the Willy-Brandt-Award in 2004.

بينما هو ينظر من النافذة منتظراً وصول أخيه المولود الجديد، متأملا السماء والنجوم والكواكب، رأى جو شهاباً يسقط من السماء، فنظر في الحديقة ليرى صبياً صغيراً يتدلى من شجرة التفاح .. كان ذلك هو ميكا.من خلال حوار الصديقين جو وميكا (ميكا كائن فضائي) يدعونا المؤلف النرويجي الشهير جوستاين جاردر أن ننظر للحياة من حولنا من منظور جديد

Dua saudara sepupu, Berit dan Nils, tinggal di kota yang berbeda. Untuk berhubungan, kedua remaja ini membuat sebuah buku-surat yang mereka tulisi dan saling kirimkan di antara mereka. Anehnya, ada seorang wanita misterius, Bibbi Bokken, yang mengincar buku-surat itu. Bersama komplotannya, tampaknya Bibbi menjalankan sebuah rencana rahasia atas diri Berit dan Nils. Rencana itu berhubungan dengan sebuah perpustakaan ajaib dan konspirasi dalam dunia perbukuan. Berit dan Nils tidak gentar, bahkan bertekad mengungkap misteri ini dan menemukan Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken. Melalui cerita yang bernuansa detektif ini, Jostein Gaarder, pengarang Sophies World, dan Klaus Hagerup, mengajak kita berpetualang dalam dunia buku dan perpustakaan. Tanpa sadar, Anda akan diperkenalkan dengan Klasifikasi Desimal Dewey, Winnie the Pooh, Anne Frank, teori sastra, teori fiksi, teori menulis, sejarah buku dan perpustakaan, dan masih banyak lagi. Dengan demikian, buku ini adalah pengantar kepada dunia buku yang dapat dinikmati pembaca kanak-kanak, remaja, maupun dewasa. Buku terbaik mengenai buku dan budaya-baca yang ada saat ini." Oldenburgische Volkszeitung. Sebuah surat cinta kepada buku dan dunia penulisan." Ruhr Nachricht

"Nova sayang, aku tak tahu bagaimana rupa dunia saat kau membaca surat ini ...."Bumi 2082, Nova sangat terkejut saat tiba-tiba di terminal online-nya muncul surat dari nenek buyutnya, Anna. Surat yang ditulis 70 tahun lalu, tepat tanggal 12.12.12. Tepat saat nenek buyutnya berusia 16 tahun seperti Nova saat ini.Sungguh misterius, bagaimana mungkin 70 tahun lalu nenek buyutnya sudah tahu bahwa kelak cicitnya bernama Nova? Dan dari mana nenek buyutnya tahu tentang keresahan-keresahan Nova? Tentang bumi yang sudah tak seindah dulu lagi, tentang spesies yang punah, tanah-tanah yang tenggelam, kutub yang meleleh. Dan, benarkah cincin rubi merah dari legenda Aladin, menjadi kunci untuk mengembalikan keseimbangan bumi? Cincin yang selama ini melingkar di jari Anna, nenek buyutnya?Jostein Gaarder, penulis Dunia Sophie, kembali dengan Dunia Anna, sekali lagi mengajak kita berkaca. Dengan kisah yang ringan namun penuh makna, Jostein Gaarder kembali mengajak pembaca merenungkan eksistensi manusia dan semesta.

The author of the massively successful Sophie's World returns with a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring the place of human consciousness in the universe Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together, then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over a couple of weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past. This intimate love story of rediscovery explores the question: can science explain everything, or does some invisible force influence our lives?

Was ist das Wichtigste im Leben? Und was genau richtig? Das neue Buch von Jostein Gaarder.Albert hat eine schlimme Diagnose von seiner Ärztin und ehemaligen Geliebten erhalten. Während seine Frau Eirin auf einem Kongress ist, fährt er allein in die einsame Ferienhütte an einem Waldsee: Soll er sein Leben selbst beenden, bevor es die tödliche Krankheit tut? Um mit sich selbst ins Reine zu kommen, schreibt er in das Hüttenbuch. Er erzählt, wie er Eirin kennenlernte und wie sie als jung Verliebte in das Märchenhaus einbrachen, das sie später gekauft haben. Wie seine Ehe zu kriseln begann, welche Rolle Sohn und Enkelin für ihn spielen und von seiner Begeisterung für die Astrophysik. Es wird eine lange Nacht, bis irgendwann ein Boot ruderlos auf dem See treibt und ein Fremder erscheint.

From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder comes a beautiful novel about loneliness and the power of words.Jakop is a lonely man.Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies.As his addiction to storytelling spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories with the ever more urgent need for human connection.

Jostein Gaarder’s worldwide philosophy bestseller Sophie’s World is reimagined as a graphic novel by writer Vincent Zabus and artist Nicoby, with this first volume exploring the tenets from Socrates to Galileo.One day, Sophie receives a cryptic letter posing an intriguing “Who are you?” A second message soon “Where does the world come from?” It is the beginning of an unusual correspondence between our curious young heroine and her mysterious pen pal. As the questions begin to pile up, Sophie is propelled headlong into a startling adventure through the history of Western philosophy. Her search for answers will see her explore each of the major schools of thought as she tries to uncover the true nature of the letters, her secretive teacher, and above all, herself!In this witty comics adaptation, Vincent Zabus and Nicoby have reinvented Jostein Gaarder’s novel of ideas—a beloved bestseller that has already won the hearts of over 50 million readers around the world—to bring Sophie’s charming exploration of meaning and existence to a whole new medium.

A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape. Soon we realize he is on a journey of thoughts and dreams, asking questions about loss, myth, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being. Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions merge with the beautiful illustrations of Akin Düzakin into a tale of friendship, love, and grief - and about daring to think about life as you live it.

«O que é a religião? É uma cerimónia de baptismo numa pequena igreja norueguesa. É o culto num templo budista. São os judeus com os seus rolos de pergaminho da Tora em frente ao Muro das Lamentações. São os peregrinos, que numa prova de fé, viajam até Meca.» Como nasceram as religiões e como se desenvolveram as suas diferentes manifestações presentes, hoje, em todo o mundo? Porque é que se torna elementar conhecê-las? E será que, nos dias que correm, há sentido em praticá-las? Desde sempre a religião desempenhou um papel fundamental e determinante na vida social e política em qualquer parte do mundo. Este livro descreve crenças, rituais e organizações das religiões vivas reagrupadas por centros de origem: Índia (Hinduísmo e Budismo), Extremo Oriente (Confucionismo, Taoísmo, Shintoismo) e Médio Oriente (Judaísmo, Islamismo e e Cristianismo). Através de uma linguagem objectiva as religiões são todas colocadas no mesmo plano e tratadas com igual e absoluto respeito, e delas filtradas e analisadas as filosofias de vida que pretendem responder muitas vezes às grandes questões existenciais. Jostein Gaarder e os seus colaboradores quiseram, com este livro, tornar perceptível que todas as religiões encontram as suas raízes numa condição humana comum e tornar o leitor consciente de uma ética inerente à própria vida, seja do indivíduo ou de uma colectividade, quer faça ou não parte de um grupo religioso. A este propósito, o presente livro inclui também filosofias de vida sem qualquer base religiosa, como o Humanismo, o Marxismo, o Materialismo e até uma incursão pelo movimento de cultura alternativa New Age. As intenções pedagógicas que inspiraram Gaarder a escrever este livro são evidentes.

This is the story of the magical adventures of a small boy who helps a frog turn back into a prince and is rewarded with a visit to the Frog Castle. As with all Gaarder stories, there is a subtext, this time the gentle exploration of a child learning to come to terms with his grandfather's death.

Jostein Gaarder har skrevet en personlig, vakker historie, et forsøk på å forstå verden, en livsfilosofi.I denne sjarmerende og fabulerende fortellingen vender han tilbake til tanker som har opptatt ham bestandig. Fra han som barn en dag så verden liksom for første gang og spurte seg: Er det ikke rart at vi lever? Er det ikke rart at verden fins? Gaarder begrenser seg ikke til sin egen levetid, men skriver engasjerende og lettfattelig om universets tid helt tilbake fra det store smellet for 13,8 milliarder år siden. Slik plasserer han fortellingen om Jorden i en kosmisk verdensorden. Ikke minst holder han oss fast med det viktigste av alle spørsmål: Hvordan skal vi klare å bevare menneskehetens sivilisasjon og selve livsgrunnlaget på vår egen planet?

Über die Wunder des Denkens Was macht ein Schriftsteller, dessen Romanheld ihm auf Seite 112 eröffnet: »Jetzt will ich mein eigenes Leben führen«? In Jostein Gaarders Erzählung ›Theobald und Theodor‹ weigert sich die Romanfigur, dem Diktat des Autors zu folgen. Theobald versucht stattdessen, den Spieß umzudrehen. Der Schriftsteller seinerseits glaubt, die Situation fest im Griff zu haben, denn schließlich ist es ja seine Idee gewesen, seinen Romanfiguren so viel Freiheit wie möglich zu lassen. Doch er unterliegt einer gefährlichen Täuschung. Diese sowie neun weitere Erzählungen und elf poetische Kurztexte versammelt Jostein Gaarder in seinem Band ›Der seltene Vogel‹. Den Erzählungen ist gemeinsam, daß in ihnen Grenzen überschritten werden - zwischen Leben und Tod, zwischen Traum und Realität, zwischen Zeit und Unendlichkeit. Wie in seinen beiden großen Romanen lässt Gaarder auch in diesem Band früher Erzählungen wieder philosophisches Gedankengut wie selbstverständlich mit einfließen. Doch verzichtet er auch hier darauf, dem Leser fertige Antworten zu liefern, stattdessen ermuntert er ihn, selbst Fragen zu stellen und mitzuphilosophieren.

«Hai mai guardato le stelle? Sei rimasto fuori a lungo, soltanto per contemplare le stelle? Così a lungo da sentirti girare la testa. Non perché tenevi la testa piegata all’indietro, ma perché il tuo sguardo arrivava tanto lontano. Più la notte è serena, più in là riusciamo a vedere nello spazio celeste... Hai mai pensato a cosa c’è dietro le stelle? Altre stelle, naturalmente. Ma dietro a quelle? Cosa c’è al di l&agr La vita sulla Terra non è altro che una favola nata dalla fantasia degli abitanti di Sukhavati. Lì, su una pianura senza confini e senza tempo, è appoggiata la sfera del nostro universo, «come un pallone in mezzo a un campo di calcio». Lik e Lak sono gli unici bambini di Sukhavati e tali sono destinati a rimanere, perché nel loro paese il tempo non esiste: nessuno invecchia e nessuno muore. Affascinati dalle storie sulla Terra narrate dall’amico Oliver, desiderano più di ogni altra cosa compiere un viaggio in quel mondo fantastico. Riescono a partire a bordo di una sfera di cristallo, e atterrano in Norvegia, dove scateneranno un grande scompiglio. Come in C’è nessuno? anche in questo romanzo Jostein Gaarder, nel suo stile inconfondibile, semplice e limpido, ci racconta una straordinaria fiaba moderna, in cui fonde mirabilmente avventura, filosofia e poesia. Ancora una volta potremo guardare il nostro mondo con occhi nuovi, superando insieme ai due bambini di Sukhavati il pregiudizio degli abitanti della Terra verso tutto ciò che è diverso o sconosciuto: «’Non ti sembra che il mondo sia un po’ strano?» chiese di nuovo Anne Lise. ‘No... strano? Sciocchezze!’ ‘Secondo me il Mondo è una grande favola’ disse Anne Lise con lo sguardo perso nel vuoto».

Jaque mate es un libro único en el que se dan cita y se interrelacionan, como en un tablero de ajedrez, los mejores textos del imaginativo universo de Jostein Gaarder, al cumplirse sus veinte años como escritor. Jaque mate es una colección de enigmas, aventuras y cuentos que nos demuestra por qué los libros de Jostein Gaarder son leídos en todos los continentes, y que han sido sacados de esa gran variedad, imaginación, profundidad y originalidad contenidas en libros como El diagnóstico, El misterio del solitario, El mundo de Sofía, El misterio de Navidad, El enigma del espejo, Vita brevis, Maya, El vendedor de cuentos o La joven de las naranjas. Además, nos ofrece como epílogo un ensayo nuevo: «¿Es una casualidad cósmica la consciencia?».

Anton a Jonathán jsou nejlepší kamarádi. Jezdí spolu po městě, vydají se na Měsíc a na mořské dno. Jsou pořád spolu. Jednoho dne se ale něco stane.

「你是誰？」「世界從那裡來？」有一天，14歲的蘇菲放學回家，發現信箱裡有人寫了兩個問題：你是誰？世界從何而來？就這樣，在一個神祕導師的指引下，她開始思索從希臘以至於康德、從馬克思以至於佛洛伊德等各個西方哲學家所思考的大問題。在此同時，蘇菲也接到了一些很不尋常的來信。誰是席德？寫給她一般哲學史教科書難免枯燥乏味，許多觀念紛然雜陳，既沒有焦點，又缺乏系統。哲學家好像困陷於觀念的戰場，使盡全力搏鬥，卻不知勝負如何；關起門來，他自信解決了宇宙人生的所有疑難；打開門後，他發現自己的說法只是別人嘲笑批評的材料。既然如此，我們還需要哲學嗎？

「你是誰？」「世界從那裡來？」有一天，14歲的蘇菲放學回家，發現信箱裡有人寫了兩個問題：你是誰？世界從何而來？就這樣，在一個神祕導師的指引下，她開始思索從希臘以至於康德、從馬克思以至於佛洛伊德等各個西方哲學家所思考的大問題。在此同時，蘇菲也接到了一些很不尋常的來信。誰是席德？寫給她一般哲學史教科書難免枯燥乏味，許多觀念紛然雜陳，既沒有焦點，又缺乏系統。哲學家好像困陷於觀念的戰場，使盡全力搏鬥，卻不知勝負如何；關起門來，他自信解決了宇宙人生的所有疑難；打開門後，他發現自己的說法只是別人嘲笑批評的材料。既然如此，我們還需要哲學嗎？

En dag Arild kommer hjem fra skolen, er huset tomt. Han går ut i gatene, men heller ikke der er det noen mennesker, ikke noe liv å se. Bortsett fra en underlig, liten og gul skapning som sitter på en fortauskant og slår en terning mens den mumler for seg selv. Dette blir starten på den merkeligste dagen Arild har opplevd.

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Neste livro fascinante, o autor de O mundo de Sofia reúne as principais ideias que povoaram sua mente ao longo da vida.Em seu novo livro, Jostein Gaarder nos apresenta os principais questionamentos que o formaram como pessoa através de uma carta aberta aos seus netos, que devem viver até o final do século XXI — período que considera decisivo para a raça humana. Afinal, com as mudanças climáticas e o aquecimento global, resultado de um capitalismo desenfreado focado no consumo e na queima de combustíveis fósseis, a biodiversidade do planeta está fortemente ameaçada, assim como a própria humanidade.Com um texto acessível mas nada banal, Gaarder traz uma série de ensinamentos sobre o indivíduo e o coletivo, e principalmente sobre a nossa relação com a natureza. A carta entrelaça ciência e filosofia, experiências de vida e fabulações. A mensagem que fica é a urgência de agirmos para garantir o futuro das próximas gerações. Afinal, somos nós que estamos aqui agora, e é nosso dever — social, moral, cósmico — preservar a existência da humanidade.

《苏菲的世界》一书以小说的形式，通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过，揭示了西方哲学发展的历程。由前苏格拉底时代到萨特，以及亚里士多德、笛卡儿、黑格尔等人的思想都通过作者生动的笔触跃然纸上，并配以当时的历史背景加以解释，引人入胜。评论家认为，对于那些从未读过哲学课程的人而言，此书是最为合适的入门书，而对于那些以往读过一些哲学而已忘得一干二净的人士，也可起到温故知新的作用。 14岁的少女苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼前展开。在一位神秘导师的指引下，苏菲开始思索，她