The Seducer’s Diary
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
“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 Soren Kierkegaard’s narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard’s first major volume, “Either/Or,” springs from his relationship….Read More
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