The Seducer's Diary

Name: The Seducer's Diary
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Soren Kierkegaard

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"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 with his fiancee, 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. Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.

Author Biography:

The text is from Howard V. Hong's and Edna H. Hong's standard English translation of "The Writings of Kierkegaard". The foreword by John Updike was specifically commissioned for this volume.

Release date NZ

April 28th, 2013

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Edited and translated by Edna H. Hong
Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong
Foreword by John Updike

Pages

232

Dimensions

114x190x17

ISBN-13

9780691158419

Product ID

21043536

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