ABSTRACT
Finn Jor's novel Kjærlighetens gjerninger. En roman om Søren og Regine was published by Pantagruel Forlag in Oslo in 1997. Kjærlighetens gjerninger is a fictional work about the love story of Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen. The way in which the first-person narrator tells the story sounds for the most part authentic and creates a kind of familiarity with both the persons and the events, but occasionally one can see the author behind the scenes putting his own words in the mouth of Regine Olsen. Although Jor's book is a fictional work, the novel nevertheless follows the historical facts about the story of Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen. The novel is written in a rather simple but not superficial language that fits well with the language of a cultivated lady. It makes the people and time seem familiar and gives an authentic and historically correct introduction to both Kierkegaard's life and works and to his relationship to Regine Olsen.
