ABSTRACT

When the Czech journalist and historian Václav Fiala published his travelogue on Scandinavia named Země fjordů a ság (The Countries of Fjords and Sagas) in 1940,1 the chapter on Søren Kierkegaard was missing. From the beginning Fiala intended to design this chapter as a dialogue, and when he started to write down and elaborate upon a real dialogue on Kierkegaard, which he had with a friend sitting in front of the memorial for Kierkegaard in the Royal Library Garden in Copenhagen in 1934, the text soon begun to fall out from the travelogue in both extent and tone. Fiala published the text a few years later in 1944, as a separate book, in only 75 copies.