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Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine

Jostein Gaarder

Paperback | Pages: 164 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 3824 Users | 274 Reviews

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Title	:	Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine
Author	:	Jostein Gaarder
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 164 pages
Published	:	October 5th 2000 by Phoenix (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Literature. Novels. Religion

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A box of Ltin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocyphral invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcrpit 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'sinterpretation 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 numerous 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.

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Original Title:	Vita Brevis: Floria Aemilias Brev til Auriel Augustin
ISBN:	0753804611 (ISBN13: 9780753804612)
Edition Language:	English

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muna..That one word would be enough to describe the bishop from Floria Aemilias protestation should the story was true.The letter contains Florias objections to what Aurel wrote on his confession. The love they had before was only mentioned as sensual lust and sinful desires. The letter shows Florias anger, disappointment and her betrayed feeling. Her love was real to Aurel and so did Aurel's to her. The fruit of love was once a living boy St Augustine only child with Floria- but he wrote it as

What I did like about this book was its structure and the range of analysis that it offers itself to. Firstly, I like the premise of the book, that this may or may not be an authentic love letter to St Augustine from his secret lover Floria Aemilia. The layout of the book, with the translated letter on the right page and footnotes on the left page, beautifully captures the mix of academic research and fictional narrative that the book straddles. Secondly, I enjoyed the depth of the narrative. I

The idea of this book is so seductive, along the lines of Yourcenor's "Hadrian's Memoirs', of bringing to life history with a glimpse into the thoughts and private life of a 4th century woman. It seems to me somehow that the ideas she espouses are thoroughly modern however much I agree with them - I wonder if her arguments could conceivably have been argued by one of her situation and epoch. I am not particularly familiar with the era but enjoyed the glimpse of the cusp between the classical and

Vita brevis: a letter to st. Augustine = Brief Life = That Same Flower, Jostein Gaarder Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine is a novel written by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and originally published in 1996. Gaarder presents the text as written by Saint Augustines lover (who is mentioned, but not named, in his Confessions). In the introduction, Gaarder claims that he found the old manuscript at a bookshop in Buenos Aires and translated it. According to his plotline, it was written by

I like the idea of this book, and the criticism of abstinence and the treatment of women by the later church is spot on. The character of Augustine (outside of the actual quotes) doesn't feel quite right to me though - plausible but not quite the personality of Confessions.

I got this book in the most random way possible and I instantaneously fell in love with Gaarder.

This is the sort of book that's criminally easy to write. Pick a historical figure whose philosophy you disagree with; psychoanalyze him; choose a narrating character from that persons life (who thinks oddly like a modern) to attack him; and graft onto the target's life certain horrific episodes that you've invented out of whole cloth. In the end, this is a rather angry little book that demonstrates little knowledge of theology, ignores central elements of Augustine's thought, and is yet another