The 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...

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Main Author: Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 (Author)
Other Authors: Hong, Howard Vincent 1912-2010 (Editor, Translator), Hong, Edna 1913-2007 (Editor, Translator), Updike, John 1932-2009 (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2013
Edition:Paperback reissue
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Summary:"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 Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of "indirect communication." The Seducer's Diary, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her....from publisher's description
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214)
Physical Description:xv, 214 Seiten 19 cm
ISBN:9780691158419
069115841X

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