Engagement
Sundstrom, Gun-Britt, 1945-2025
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'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.' Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work. Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world's future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy.
Main title:
Engagement / Gun-Britt Sundstrom ; translated by Kathy Saranpa.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2025.London : Penguin Classics, 2025.
Collation:
512 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Swedish.
ISBN:
9780241688120 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
3056025