El Mundo De: Sofia

The book’s main metaphor is the The rabbit represents the universe/nature. Most people are born at the tip of the rabbit’s fine hairs (focused on mundane, sensory details). Philosophers, however, crawl down to the fur and try to climb up to the magician (the creator/ultimate reality). Sofía’s journey is a literal attempt to climb from the fur (her fictional world) to the magician (the Major).

El mundo de Sofía (Sophie’s World) is a novel by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder, published in 1991. It’s a unique blend of fiction and philosophy, often used as an introduction to the history of Western thought. El mundo de Sofia

Soon, she starts receiving a series of typed lessons on the history of philosophy from a mysterious philosopher named Alberto Knox. Through these lessons, Sofía learns about major philosophers from the pre-Socratics (Thales, Heraclitus) to modern thinkers (Sartre, Freud). The book’s main metaphor is the The rabbit