Vita Brevis

by JosteinGaarder (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1998

  $3.36

  A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.

  A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to 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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.36

  In a second had bookshop in Buenos Aires, the author makes an exciting find- A transcript of a hitherto undreamt of letter to St Augustine, the fourth century bishop of Hippo and author of the famous confessions,from Floria Aemiliathe women he renounced for chastity. Backed up with quotations and scholarly comentary, this entracing short text is as playful, inventive and questioning as any of Gaader's work.