The Seducer's DiaryIn the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiositya 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 Sren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either Or, springs from his relationship with his fiance, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years