The Seducer's Diary By Soren Kierkegaard

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The book The Seducer's Diary by Soren Kierkegaard is not the typical book. It is in fact non-fiction, but it's read differently due to the fact that he talks with different perspectives and personalities throughout the entire book. The read feels like it's more of a philosophical journal than anything else, it is not an easy read by any means, or at least not for me. Kierkegaard tries to engage the reader into the book by asking himself questions and kind of leaving it up to the reader to interpret what happened. The book is about a guy, also known as Johannes, the seducer, who falls in love with a girl then breaks up with her expecting her to be in love with him still, she ends up getting married to someone else. Johannes has his mind set …show more content…

That goes to show how indecisive he is, just like he is indecisive with just about everything else. He is completely infatuated with the thought of women, he wants all these women, but the second the woman caves into him and give him what he wants, he becomes bored and walks away. Johannes spends most of his time seducing Cordelia, he tries just about everything to make sure this woman or shall I say girl notices him. I say that Cordelia could be considered a girl to him because he is significantly older than her. On his mission to seduce Cordelia at first is just a game, he just wants her to notice him. If Johannes knew ahead of time that Cordelia was going to be walking at a certain place at an exact time, he was going to make sure he was walking right around there at the same time so she could notice him, day after day. Eventually, it became even more drastic, for example, if he knew she was going to be in a specific store shopping that day, he would decide to go shopping at the same store at the same time as her. Day after day, eventually he became part of her mind, but he wasn't going to be the one to approach

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