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The Seducer - It is Hard to Die in Dieppe (Hardcover)
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The Seducer - It is Hard to Die in Dieppe (Hardcover)
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A fictionalized biography of Peter Ludvig Moller, a leading Danish
literary critic in the early 19th century who is best known as the
subject of Kierkegaard's The Seducer's Journal. Stangerup (The Road
to Lagoa Santa, 1984; The Man Who Wanted to Be Guilty, 1982)
successfully captures an intellectual milieu and a life filled with
chaos, intellectual ferment, and much instability. Moller died in
1856, of syphilis and dissipation, and the stow here begins and
ends with the hallucinatory images that haunt him in his last days.
He was a brilliant student, but a girl he shyly proposed to
rejected him at the behest of his mother, who would go into a
"dazed rapture" at the sight of "better houses"; and Moller,
described as a Danish version of Ezra Pound, spent much of his life
in a rage against orthodoxy. His father lived in "inchoate rage,
fueled by his own abysmal sense of failure." Moller switched from
medicine to theology; the novel traces his journey from avid
proponet of "the good criticism" (a sort of visionary realism) and
forceful antagonist of Kierkegaard's subjectivity and religious
idealism (Moller: "I fling down the gauntlet!") to depraved
sensualist and frantic intellectual who "dashes off one article
after another." He goes into exile in Paris, "precisely where he
belongs," observes the life of the dance halls and literary cafes,
smokes hash, consorts with hookers, and continues to write about
everything from troubadour poets to folk tales, all the while
maintaining a loyalty for "ordinary working gifts." A
perfectionist, he fails to achieve what he hopes for, and his final
phantasmagoric death in Dieppe is both pathetic and tragic in
Stangerup's account. A vivid dramatization of a brilliant yet
flawed personality at fatal odds with his times. (Kirkus Reviews)
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