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Article: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE.(Fiction)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Linn Ullmann, daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman, has written an intimate first novel that's bound for bedside tables everywhere
Sometimes I ask myself: When is a marriage over?
I'm sure it's long before the spouses agree that now it's over, now we have to split up - and then actually go through with a divorce.
So that's why I ask: When is a marriage over?
Is it when one of us thinks: I wish you were dead?
Is it when one of us says (for the very first time): I don't want to live with you anymore? You're ruining my life?
Is it when one of us stares at the ceiling, whispering: I'd do anything not to sleep with ...