Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen

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The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse, from the author of the definitive life of the philosopher Kierkegaard's Muse-the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the inspiration and one-time fiancee of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard-is a moving portrait of a long romantic fever that had momentous literary consequences. Draw

Joakim Garff is the author of Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography (Princeton) and director of the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen.

"A moving, penetrating insight into one of the greatest and most perplexing love stories in literary history, written with the same scholarly vigilance and imaginative affection that made Garff's biography of Kierkegaard such a monumental achievement. . . . [G]oes further than any previous attempt to explore and understand the relationship between Regine and Kierkegaard."-Morten Hoi Jensen, Los Angeles Review of Books "Garff is both a punctilious scholar and superb writer."-Frank Freeman, Commonweal Magazine "A measured, perceptive portrait of Regine Olsen, Kierkegaard's jilted fiancee, reanimating her not as the philosopher's immortalized muse but as a living, breathing person."-Publishers Weekly