‘Søren Kierkegaard wrote most of his major books using pseudonyms, or heteronyms. Fear and Trembling was attributed to Johannes de Silentio. The Sickness unto Death was authored by Anti-Climacus, named as an attack on one of Kierkegaard’s earlier pseudonyms, Johannes Climacus. Either/Or had two pseudonymous authors, and a pseudonymous editor! All in all 22 two alts have been connected to Kierkegaard. He wrote a book about his pseudonyms.’

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