The Diary of the Temptress

Author: [Denmark] S?ren Kierkegaard by Zhang Yuaxin translated
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: The author of this book is S?ren Kierkegaard, known as the Danish madman, in fact, he is the father of contemporary existentialism, his thoughts are deeply influential. This book fully demonstrates Kierkegaard's dialectical mindset of testing himself to grasp the trends of human nature, trying to a natural person, or an aestheticist's love, hate, emotions, and enmities. The tempter Johannes in "The Diary of a Seducer" is a typical character of perfectionism. When he encounters the youthful beauty Cthilia, he is deeply attracted to her. He tries every means to "accidentally meet" her, first attracting her with witty sarcasm and peculiar thoughts, making her from aversion and fear to obsession; then, using rolling ink sweat and passionate language, he lures the heroine to willingly give her emotions and virtue. From the beginning, Johannes did not intend to end this love in the form of marriage, but instead tried to make the heroine stay in the stage of love after entering it, finally even she would come to loathe the vulgarity of marriage and give it up, trying to maintain a more noble, pure, and aspiring love. He savors the taste of love, admiring his masterpiece—Cthilia, who dedicated herself to love under his guidance and creation. This is Johannes, the tempter, who neither gives up the sensory and spiritual pleasure brought by love in reality nor attempts to pursue the ideal and perfect eternity.