Been born in Oslo, Norway, in 1952, Jostein
Gaarder is an author of novels and stories for children and adults, he created
of the art of writing a pedagogic instrument, vocation that developed in the
bosom of an educators'' family.Of there his insistence in encouraging in
children and adolescents the taste for the reading, is useful to establish
beginning of life arisen from the philosophical reflection from the daily
thing.The World of Sofia, assembles more than any of
his works this characteristic: philosophical - pedagogic.Sofia is a girl who, in full adolescence she is
alone, opposite to the decisions that are going to catapult her towards the
adult life..The metaphor of the father navigator and the
mysterious mails that come to him to face his uncertainty, are only the
astonishment and the anxiety that all the men feel before the unknown of the
future forward and of the origins backwards, pressing questions that the mails
clear in view of different philosophical schools.This trip is not casual for the thoughts of all
the times from the preSocratic ones.What
Gaarder demonstrates is the validity of the universal man in essence, beyond
the linear progress of the science and the possibility of philosophizing with
the alone instrument of the natural light.This work disguised as novel by his narrative
structure, is really a finished agreement of philosophical Anthropology and of
Philosophy of the education, which he instructs delighting, because it is
impossible for anyone, without distinction of age''s stripes, not to remain
caught by his reading. As auction of this model novel,
the CD '' The World of Sofia '' is the ideal complement for his possibility of
solving interactive works that allow to gain access to each of the screens and
the detailed attached information illustrated with very interesting videos. A perfect
culture medium so that the today adolescents, children of the cybernetics, are
a happy student." The World of Sofia " is a very
particular novel that crosses all the languages used for the communication that
culminate in the modern mail. A marvel arisen from the mind of a man worried by
the humanity.