A review by dreamtokens
Diary of a Seducer by Søren Kierkegaard

4.0

I enjoy Kierkegaard's writing and ideas very much, and this book was delightful to read. The diary of a seducer is the story of a creator, so to say, of magnific situations: it is narrated in first person, from Johan's jornal entries. He seems to have fallen in love with a young girl, Cordelia, and does everything to seduce her: lies, artifices, he plans, he manipulates, he creates her. In fact, he is hardly interested in getting to know her - not at all - or in loving in a traditional sense, in a way that means accepting each other, rather, he wants to create a unique, aesthetic event in her life, a kind of love that is beyond passion and truth, something in the field of the beautiful only.
However, before pronouncing myself on Kierkegaard's study on aesthetics in love and sacrificing the moral to the interesting, I want to read more of his work Either/or.