Diary of a Seducer Author:Soren Kierkegaard, Gerd Aage Gillhoff (Translator) Translated from the Danish, with an introd., by Gerd Gillhoff. — Johannes, the diarist, is a wealthy man-about-town, unmarried, idle, and self-absorbed, but with considerable intellectual pride. He has an eye for a pretty woman, but he is no Don Juan for whom life is one amorous conquest after another. What fascinates him is the method of seducti... more »on. The ideal for Johannes is a woman who is able to respond to the play of his intellectual powers, for he intends first to raise her to his level, to expand her emotional awareness, to involve her subtly in an affair in which she becomes the pursuer.« less