"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.
Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to.
This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard\'s first major volume, Either/Or , springs from his relationship with his fiancee, Regine Olsen. "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
