Diario del seduttore

How sincere was K? I think he was very!

Actually read this as a part of the Either/Or Volume I. Diary of one of the most despicable people I've come across in a literary sense.

5 stars? Really though, I had such a hard time putting this one down I've literally spent the last five days reading the final three pages because I don't want it to end :(It truly is a masterpiece on aesthetics and the true follies of a passionate relationship between a young man and a younger girl. Love is fleeting, as much as Søren Kierkegaard's clever character named: 'Johannes' hates to admit, he wrote an entire diary about it but with a cunnilingus, I mean cunning yet charming style that could only be pulled off in the 19th century yet so many of the affairs of the heart presented are still very true to this day. Brilliant, absolute classic. thank you penguin, yet again. If only I had met your GreatIdeas/GreatLoves series earlier in my life. Still...I've managed with the American canon quite well............Kierkegaard, the witty devil he is, sneaks in his own synposis on the book he just wrote for the final sentence:"Nevertheless, it would really be wothwhile knowing whether one couldn't poetize oneself out of a girl, whether one couldn't make her so proud that she imagined it was she who had wearied of the relationship. It could become a quite interesting epilogue, which in its own right might be of psychological interest, and besides that, enrich one with many erotic observations."PS if you read it without the intense edge of knowing that it's based on a true story just purposely made with a more evil edge, than you may not enjoy it as much.