{"product_id":"9780691158419","title":"The Seducer's Diary (New in Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In the vast literature of love, \u003ci\u003eThe Seducer's Diary\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\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.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Seducer's Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051037999344,"sku":"9780691158419","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780691158419_p0.jpg?v=1763609831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780691158419","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}