ABSTRACT
Andras Nagy's study, The Shadowplayer, was published by L'Harmattan Publisher House in 2011. The book can be divided into three main parts. Part One begins with an essay that explains the book's main objective: it places Kierkegaard in a theatrical context and thus shows how his contact with the theater influenced his writings. Nagy suggests that Kierkegaard himself played the part of an actor, and his visits to the theater serve as an example of this. Kierkegaard's writings reveal a variety of different influences from books, personal relationships and numerous thinkers. Part Two of The Shadowplayer is devoted to the explanation of these. The first essay ("Paradox Schiller") in this part gives an overview of the connections between Kierkegaard and the great German poet and his works. Nagy points out, that Friedrich Schiller was present in Kierkegaard's field of view from his youth in so far as the Dane constantly dealt with the same questions, problems, and conflicts that Schiller expressed in his poems.
