In his multiform work, both narrative and conceptual, lyrical and dialectical, Kierkegaard questions freedom, sometimes in a theoretical mode (as in The Concept of Anxiety), sometimes in a novelistic mode (as in Stages on Life’s Way). It is then important to compare and contrast these texts. We will take freedom as a thread of existence, with the theme of choice, exposed and analyzed in Either/Or. It is also the choice that is staged in a singular story, “Guilty?”/“Not Guilty?”. If the theoretical texts explore and clarify the concept of freedom, thought in the Augustinian and Lutheran tradition, it is the setting in narrative which gives its full consistency to the free act. This leads to a research on the status of subjectivity, whose ultimate point is explained in the Discourses, eminently in the Works of Love.