Kierkegaard's muse : the mystery of Regine Olsen / Joakim Garff ; translated by Alastair Hannay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garff, Joakim, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Hannay, Alastair, translator.

Standardized Title:

Regines gåde. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Olsen, Regine, 1822-1904.

Olsen, Regine.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Denmark--Biography.

Denmark.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Part 1 1855

The Painful Departure 13

"You my heart's sovereign, mistress" 16

The Virgin Islands 24

Governor J. F. Schlegel and His Wife 29

The Attack on the Church 34

"The flies are to such a degree impertinent out here" 37

Patient No. 2067 41

1856

His Last Will and Testament 51

"My Regine! ... Your K." 55

"She nodded twice. I shook my head." 70

Repetition and the Repetition 71

Regine Frederikke Olsen's Death 80

Cane Garden's Blessings 82

"Food for worms and that's the end of it" 88

"... for you know how little fuss there is with Fritz and me" 91

Henrik Lund and "Uncle Søren" 95

Regine's First Letter to Henrik Lund 102

The Sealed Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel 107

The Secret Place in Regine's Heart 114

The Plagues Paradise 118

The First Love 126

"... its exactly a matter I'd like to take up a little: blind love!" 128

"But I am constantly afraid of her passion" 130

"... so she eggs the merman on" 132

"... an unsettled point between us"-Regines Second Letter to Henrik Lund 135

"One unnamed whose name will sometime be named" 138

"Then I return to you ..." 143

1857

"The Seducer's Diary" 146

Tropical Yuletide 153

The White Gold-A Dark Chapter 154

"We have had a Negro-uprising on St. Croix!" 158

Regine and "the Blacks" 163

Birch and His Brother 168

"Meet her without being observed" 172

"... I am an exceptional lover" 176

Either/Or 178

"The priest people in Hellevad" 181

"The day is bad, but the night is worse" 183

"... then I stand there so untouched by it all" 186

1001 Nights 188

1858

"You imagined it was Cornelia" 194

"What does this silence mean?" 195

"... I shall the second time with God's help become more cruel" 201

"... my besetting sin, making eternities!" 204

"God preserve me from their Christianity" 208

"... as though 1 were 16 again and not 36" 212

"What an enormous loss, that Mrs. Heiberg has left the theater!" 215

Fritz and His Tormentors 217

"-and when I grew dizzy through gazing down into her infinite devotion" 220

1859

"They played mostly dance music" 224

The French Officer-A Little Weakness 227

The Collectively Unutterable and Some Stolen Reflections 229

Birthdays-and Other Fatalities 234

Part 2 1860-1896

"... I am not looking forward to coming to Copenhagen" 241

Homecoming and the Time That Followed 242

Regine's Copenhagen and Environs 246

"... a word or two about the dear Fritz" 250

"I cannot be quit of this relationship" 252

"so close to me that it was almost a collision" 256

"... my heart is deeply grieved over my poor native land" 259

Regines Boarding House 262

The Schlegels' "Place on the Corner" 263

"Alas, I am indeed somewhat spectral" 267

Regine's Myth and Brandes's Biography 271

Fireburn: Fritz's Reencounter with the West Indies 276

Exit to Eternity 279

Part 3 1897-1904

"Then comes a dream from my youth's spring ..." 285

The Right to Regine's Love Story 287

"... he is the riddle, the great riddle" 290

"'our own dear, little Regine'" 293.

Notes:

Translated from the Danish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691171760

0691171769

OCLC:

980950119