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Repetition and the Art of Writing Novels
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Nassim Bravo
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Fernanda Rojas
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July 14, 2022
Abstract
In this paper we wish to analyze how Kierkegaard understood the art of writing novels, that is, as a way to express and develop the life-view of the author. We would like to argue that this notion, presented for the first time in From the Papers of One Still Living (1838), was put into practice in the short novel Repetition (1843), in which Kierkegaard used the biblical story of Job to explain the development of selfhood through the existential category of repetition. According to Kierkegaard, true repetition—which is the central category of the life-view he is trying to convey—helps the individual “recollect” the past correctly so he or she can reconcile with the present and grow into the future.
Online erschienen: 2022-07-14
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- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
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- Wielding Fear and Trembling Against Religious Violence and Bigotry
- Repetition and the Art of Writing Novels
- Voice and Fertility, (Self‐)Impregnation and (Inter‐)Dependence: The Pseudonyms and their (Narratives about) Wives
- The Logic of Contemporaneity: On Anti-Climacus’s Philosophy of History
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- Kierkegaard’s Hermeneutics of Anxiety and Agonistic Hermeneutics
- Kierkegaard’s Strong Anti-Rationalism: Offense as a Propaedeutic to Faith
- Kierkegaard’s Deontology of Love
- What Thinkers Call “the Other”
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