Soren Kierkegaard

words, “Thenit was.. .”? As we have seen, Barfod assumed that the journal entries had been written downafterKierkegaard’s twenty ...

ion of Brandes’s interpretation of the great earthquake. The professor spe- cifically asked for clarification concerning whether ...

overshadowed everything in the family’s more or less mythic self-under- standing—his father’s cursing of God—of which Peter Chri ...

years old.” At that time Peter Christian was thirty-two, pale and sickly after his typhus, so presumably it was Peter Christian’ ...

we had important common ground in a few strange ideas, and in such conversations Father was almost always delighted with me beca ...

as Emil Boesen confidentially informed Martin Hammerich in a letter of July 20, 1838—Kierkegaard had “written a piece on Anderse ...

Andersen explained, Kierkegaard said that “I had been completely misunder- stood!” Andersen therefore expected a genuine encomiu ...

“Good night, sleep well,” while the Italians wish one “The happiest of nights!” Southern nights possess more than—dreams.’ ” Vie ...

posed anonymity was referred to merely as “the author ofA Story of Everyday Life”) and in Steen Steensen Blicher, whose works ar ...

Worst of all, of course, was that Andersen had been utterly unable to manage his hero, the semiautobiographical Christian, who w ...

senior, the hard news that only dead and transfigured personalities have the right to be productive. He set forth this requireme ...

he will whisper in Andersen’s ear when the occasion presents itself. In other words, Ingemann was on the right track when he tho ...

“In vino veritas” Kierkegaard had Victor Eremita say “Good night, Wee Willie Winkie” to all ideality, and in so doing Kierkegaar ...

1839 The Rich Young Man Søren Aabye inherited more than his father’s “transfigured image.” When theestatewassettledinMarch1839,t ...

which, however, true to form, he quickly abandoned. A couple of years earlier Kierkegaard had participated in some similar exerc ...

HeavenandHell—unknowndivinity!O,Icanreallybelievethepoetswho tellusthatwhenweseetheobjectofourloveforthefirsttime,webelieve we h ...

Thatistrueenough.Andbythesametoken,eroticpassionisnotneces- sarily predestined to end in a marriage but can discharge itself in ...

Heiberg,theconversationturnedtoKierkegaard’srecentlypublishedwork From the Papers of One Still Living, which, with its untraditi ...

of that, because theirs aredefective.” Of course, this is in itself an affected littlewitticism,butKierkegaardwantedtogoonthecou ...

cheeses.” In the latter part of March 1840 she again wrote to the brothers Kierkegaard: “Mssrs. Dear Nephews: Wee have intended ...