Engagement

<p><i>¿I want to have him, I really do. I just don¿t want him to have me.¿</i><br><br>Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what <i>is </i>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.<br><br><i>Engagement</i>, 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,