- Meïr Aron Gold-
schmidt. Goldschmidt
belonged to the generation
of younger authors and
intellectuals for whom
Either/Or had been
a literary revelation. As
the editor of the satirical
weekly The Corsair,
he wrote an enthusiastic
review of the work. Later
the journal had the good,
wicked idea of depict-
ing Kierkegaard as a
hunchbacked figure with
trouser legs of unequal
length. In no time at all,
Kierkegaard’s relation to
the people of Copenhagen
was transformed; subjected
to their gaping stares, he
felt himself demoted from
master thinker to village
idiot. At the same time
he felt promoted from the
rank of poet to that of
martyr. The four drawings
along the lower margin of
these pages are from The
Corsair, issue nos. 277
and 278.
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