The secret life of Kierkegaard's lover. From: The Literary Review | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Kennedy, Thomas E. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Among less loudly noted notable events of September 2001 as the publication in Denmark of a slim volume, not yet translated into English, entitled Regine Olsen's Diary. The diary itself is a mere fifty pages, preceeding it a fourteen-page introduction by Erik Sondergaard Hansen (whose actual existence is in question in the Danish press and academic world) and following it an eight-page afterword by Johs. Norregard Frandsen, a contemporary Danish literary critic whose existence is u...

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