# Vita Brevis

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- Book: [Vita Brevis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jostein-gaarder/vita-brevis) ([Vita Brevis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jostein-gaarder/vita-brevis.md))
- Authors: [Jostein Gaarder](https://www.bookquiver.com/jostein-gaarder)
- Publisher: W N
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-9786-472-1
- Published: 2010-11-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.