In Repetition, Soren Kierkegaard asks the question, Is repetition possible? Attempting to find an answer, he explores a love affair that ends in tragedy. In Repetition, James Tadd Adcox asks the question, Is repetition possible? Attempting to find an answer, he explores a love affair that ends in tragedy. In this short novel, at once a meditation on Kierkegaard’s work as well as a rewriting of it, the unnamed former president of the Constantin Constantius Society tells the story of an academic conference that ends in betrayal, crime, and a moment of pure and terrifying freedom.