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Thou Sun Amongst Women: Kierkegaard’s Letters to Regine | The Book Binder's Daughter

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Reading Kierkegaard’s letters, selections from his journals and a short biography of this Danish philosopher and author was a rabbit hole I tumbled down while making my way through Kafka and Stach’s biography of Kafka. Kierkegaard comes up numerous times in Kafka’s life, but no so much for his philosophy as for the details about his personal life and his broken engagement. A twenty-four-year old Kierkegaard meets the fifteen-year old Regine Olsen at a mutual friend’s house in 1837 and he is immediately smitten with her. He wisely waits, however, until she is eighteen to begin writing her love letters and courting her. I was surprised, delighted and, at times, just slayed by the tender, caring, erudite and loving messages that Kierkegaard composes for her. The intelligence combined with sincere, true expressions of love are what impressed me most about these letters. He would oftentimes visit Regine more than once a day and hand deliver these letters (letter undated-translated b

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