ABSTRACT
Whether or not Kierkegaard’s writings display such constancy is a matter of debate. Indeed, Mynster himself told Kierkegaard that “the little review of Two Ages was an exception.”3 And yet, from another perspective, it is significant that Kierkegaard wanted On My Work as an Author to specify this constancy, that, for him, this short treatise would point out that “the authorship, regarded as a totality, is religious from first to last.”4 Not everyone, he knew, would understand it that way, for persons see what they want to see.5 But On My Work as an Author afforded him the opportunity to clarify how his writings reflect upon the religious “in such a way that it is completely taken back out of reflection into simplicity.”6 In other words, the endpoint of his authorship is “to reach, to arrive at simplicity.”7
