Johannes Edouard Hohlenberg wrote a biography about Søren Kierkegaard in 1954 and in that book he speculated that the "Diary of the Seducer" was meant to depict the life of P.L. Moller who later (1845) wrote the articles in "The Corsair" detrimental to the character of Kierkegaard. The "Diary of a Seducer" by itself, is a provocative novella, and has been reproduced separately from "Either/Or" several times. John Updike said of the "Diary", "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".