
Seducer's Diary
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer''s Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard''s narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard''s first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine O...
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer''s Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard''s narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard''s first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine O...