num_pages: 168
description: Diary of a Seducer records Johannes's discovery of a girl with the Shakespearean name Cordelia, whom he sets out to control. Intricately, meticulously, cunningly, the seduction proceeds. No detail is too small to escape Johannes. &amp;quot;She sits on the sofa by the tea table and I sit on a chair at her side. This position has an intimate quality and at the same time a detaching dignity.&amp;quot; Less erotic than an intellectual depiction of seduction, Diary of a Seducer shows the casuist Kierkegaard in what he characterized as the aesthetic mode. A new introduction by Michael Dirda puts this influential novella into high relief.
language: English
title: Diary of a Seducer
titlecomplete: Diary of a Seducer (Continuum Impacts, 57)
genres: Danish, Philosophy, Novels, Scandinavian Literature, Literature, Psychology, Classics, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 5880
publisher: Continuum