Engagement (eBook)

Gun-Britt Sundstr m (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80206-540-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 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. First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2025
• Übersetzer: Kathy Saranpa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-80206-540-7 / 1802065407
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80206-540-4 / 9781802065404