{"product_id":"the-seducers-diary","title":"The Seducer's Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“In the vast literature of love, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seducer’s Diary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seducer’s Diary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, then, becomes Kierkegaard’s attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMatters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brøglitteraturbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56275895484802,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/3296\/2946\/files\/image_94f53762-a8a2-4220-bce2-40d04502a33e.png?v=1769512535","url":"https:\/\/www.broeglitteraturbar.dk\/products\/the-seducers-diary","provider":"Brøglitteraturbar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}