The course of 1844 reveals Kierkegaard dedicated to a volcanic literary production. From it will be born, that same year, six of his great works whose sketches we collect here: Two edifying speeches, Three edifying speeches, Philosophical crumbs, The concept of anguish, Prefaces and Four edifying speeches. As if that were not enough, its author rehearses during this period the first fragments of the Stages on the Path of Life. This volume continues Kierkegaard's criticism of the banality of culture, the poetic flashes of his prose, the acuity of his psychological exploration and his dialectical understanding of reality. Behind that intellectual power displayed in all its splendor, Kierkegaard's intimate background will appear: that deep pain called Regina, the thorn in the flesh, a quiet desperation and the radicality of his religious experience.
