ABSTRACT
In addition to his use of pseudonyms and the contrast between his pseudonymous writings and those he signed with his own name (what are sometimes called “veronymous” writings), Søren Kierkegaard employed a small variety of anonyms over the course of his authorship, as well. The most famous of these-the One Still Living in From the Papers of One Still Living; A and B in Either/Or; the Young Man in Repetition; H.H. in Two Ethical-Religious Essays-unquestionably achieve something like the authorial independence Kierkegaard grants his pseudonymous authors, thanks in part at least to the relative length and substantiality of the writings ascribed to them. Throughout the early-to-mid period of his authorship, however (a period to which From the Papers of One Still Living, Either/Or, and Repetition belong), Kierkegaard employed anonymity in a somewhat different fashion.
