"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a 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 Søren Kierkegaard's narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaard's first major volume, Either/Or, springs from his relationship with his fiancée, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his junior, proposed to her, but then broke off their engagement a year later. This event affected Kierkegaard profoundly. Olsen became a muse for him, and a flood of volumes resulted. His attempt to set right, in writing, what he feels was a mistake in his relationship with Olsen taught him the secret of "indirect communication." The Seducer's Diary, then, becomes Kierkegaard's attempt to portray himself as a scoundrel and thus make their break easier for her.</p>

Matters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.</p>

索倫•剋爾凱郭爾

（1813—1855）

丹麥哲學傢，存在主義哲學之父。

剋爾凱郭爾在27歲時與少女蕾吉娜訂婚。然而由於自己敏感的性格，他又解除瞭婚約。《誘惑者日記》摺射瞭這段經曆，而這也成為他全部哲學思索的一個支點。

剋爾凱郭爾終生冥想“如何去做一個基督徒”。他認為， 麵對“不可能”，人隻能作齣“絕望的一躍”，直接進入精神生活。

多年之後，晚年的蕾吉娜說：“他把我作為犧牲獻給瞭上帝。”