“[...] By the time of his death Kierkegaard had achieved a certain literary influence, but his philosophy had made little impact (it was a handicap that he wrote in Danish: it was long before he was translated). Enten-Eller ('Either-Or') was written before he was twenty-nine. It is a curious bundle of papers, essays, semi-dialogues and notes, seemingly ill-assorted, but in fact dialectically arranged. Originally published under a variety of pseudonyms (all recognizable) the chief advantage of his method seems to have been to give Kierkegaard the opportunity of letting different sides of his mind converse as individuals with each other, in a semi-Socratic fashion. Without disclosing his real beliefs, he confronted his readers with a choice of different possibilities. [...] As a thinker, Kierkegaard had to wait for the twentieth century to find his audience; he is now generally considered to be, however eccentric, one of the most important Christian philosophers.” (Printing and the Mind of Man, # 314.)

Reference: Himmelstrup # 20.