“Det mest sympatiske ved Espedals forfatterskab er den usvigelige vilje til at mindes dem … som ikke har status eller fremtidsudsigter

– FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

hvid kanin iklædt habit og med et lommeur i poterne

to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels

der lader sig falde ned på skinnerne fra de kørende fangetransporter

The Seducer's Diary “Det mest sympatiske ved EspedalsIn the vast literature of love, The Seducers 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 Kierkegaards narrative. This work, a chapter from Kierkegaards first major volume, Either Or, springs from his relationship with his fiance, Regine Olsen. Kierkegaard fell in love with the young woman, ten years his