wghams 's review for:

The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard

3.5

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Entertaining read, written very wittily and usual great phenomenological insights into the aesthetic mode of existence. I confess that it was far too long, though, and lost the plot towards the end. Up until the engagement with Cordelia happens, it is magnificent, after that, it loses focus, is unclear and plotlines are just abandoned. It does seem to be on purpose from Kierkegaard, but still, left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth