How Long to Read The Seducer's Diary

How Long Does it Take to Read The Seducer's Diary?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read The Seducer's Diary by S©ıren Kierkegaard

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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

How long is The Seducer's Diary?

The Seducer's Diary by S©ıren Kierkegaard is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.

This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Seducer's Diary Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read The Seducer's Diary aloud.

What Reading Level is The Seducer's Diary?

The Seducer's Diary is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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