THE SEDUCER'S DIARY

Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love or sex but by sensation and experiment, he seeks to make the object of his desire desire him and then to retreat. At once a captivating story and philosophical exploration of existences entanglements, The Seducer's Diary is also an excoriating reconstruction of Kierkegaards own romantic failures.