Marianne recovering from appendicitis in Lamia, standing beside the car she and Axel drove to Athens.
Marianne and Axel’s house in Kala Pigadia. The Swedish writer Göran Tunström lived in the dark house to the left. Marianne would call to him from the terrace: “Time to eat!”
The staircase in their house led up from the ground floor, where the kitchen and living room were.
Axel’s workroom on the second floor. There was also a bedroom/living room on this floor.
Marianne and Axel pose in their idyllic setting for a Norwegian weekly magazine.
Axel and dog on the terrace of their house.
Marianne with newly dyed hair at the ancient theatre in Aydin, Turkey, during her travels with Sam Barclay.
Axel on Barclay’s schooner, Stormie Seas, in the spring of 1959. Axel Joachim was conceived aboard the boat during this time.
Marianne at Katsikas’, where she was filling her shopping basket the first time she spoke to Leonard.
The two oldest Hydriot women Marianne knew. The woman on the left offered infant Axel Joachim spiritual protection by ritually “spitting” on him upon his arrival to the island.
Axel, Leonard, Marianne and Axel Joachim in his carriage at the back of Katsikas' shop, 1960. (James Burke/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Lunch at the port shortly after Marianne and Leonard met. From the left: Marianne, Axel Joachim, Leonard, the Englishman David Goshen and the Australian writers George Johnston and Charmian Clift, 1960. (James Burke/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Marianne with American novelist Gordon Merrick (left) and Chuck Hulse (right) — or ChuckandGordon, as Axel Joachim called them. It was Merrick’s birthday.
Bathing at Spilia, also known as swimming “on the rocks,” 1960. Standing, from the left: Charmian Clift, George Johnston, Marianne and Leonard. Jason, the Johnstons’ youngest son, was learning to swim. [James Burke/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images]
Leonard plays his guitar at the taverna known as Douskos, 1960. The circle of listeners includes Charmian Clift and George Johnston (to Leonard’s left), Axel (seated on the ground) and Marianne. The little colony of artists and travellers often gathered there in the evenings. (James Burke/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Leonard mailed Marianne photo-booth strips when they were apart.
A poem from Leonard (top), and a heart, transferred by cheque from Leonard to Marianne (bottom).
Marianne at the port of Hydra, 1962.
Axel Joachim with a bundle of birds from a local hunter, spring 1962.
Marianne and Axel Joachim loved to have their pictures taken in photo booths. Here are mother — with a fashionable bob — and son in Montreal.
These photos show Leonard (top) and Marianne (bottom) with Axel Joachim at Grafos’ taverna, autumn 1962.
Axel Joachim’s first passport photo.
Marianne and the mirror in which she and Leonard contemplated themselves, wondering who they were.
Leonard sunning himself on the terrace outside his study.
Marianne and Leonard strolling at the port, 1963.
Axel Joachim framed in a second-floor window of Leonard’s house (photo courtesy Aviva Layton).
Leonard’s close friend and mentor the poet Irving Layton during a visit to Hydra (photo courtesy Aviva Layton).
Marianne and Leonard at home on their terrace on Hydra (photo courtesy Aviva Layton).
Marianne and Leonard in Athens, captured by a street photographer in 1965.
Greetings from Axel Joachim and Leonard.
Letter from Leonard dating from their brief vegetarian period.
Leonard on his terrace, working at his green Olivetti.
While he was boarding at Summerhill, Axel Joachim wrote the “Book of Love,” which he sent his mother.
A sunny day outside Grafos’ taverna; Marianne, Axel Joachim and Leonard are on at the right.
Marianne caught in a thoughtful moment by Jean Marc Appert.
A note from Leonard.
Marianne in the jacket Leonard had worn as a member of The Buckskin Boys. The band took its name from the jacket, which had been given to Leonard by his father.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Norwegian journalist Kari Hesthamar heads the radio features department of Norway’s National Broadcasting Company. Creating radio documentaries that are “films” for listeners’ ears, she has been awarded the Prix Italia and the Prix Europa (three times). Her radio documentary “So Long, Marianne,” which was the basis for this book, won the Prix Europa in 2006. She lives with her family on a peninsula on the outskirts of Oslo.
Helle V. Goldman spent her childhood on the Greek island of Hydra and in Providence, Rhode Island. She resides with her husband and daughter on yet another island, this time in Norway — above the Arctic Circle — where she is the chief editor of an international scientific journal.
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Translation copyright © Helle V. Goldman, 2014
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Originally published in Norwegian as So Long, Marianne. Ei Kjærleikshistorie,
Copyright © Spartacus Forlag AS, 2008
Norwegian edition published by Spartacus Forlag AS, Oslo
Published by agreement with Hagen Agency, Oslo
Lyrics to “So Long, Marianne,” by Leonard Cohen, © Bad Monk Publishing, used with permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Scandinavia/Notfabriken Music Publishing AB.
All previously unpublished poems and other material by Leonard Cohen used with his permission.
The letters of Axel Jensen are quoted with permission of Prathiba Jensen.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Hesthamar, Kari, 1971–
[So long, Marianne. English]
So long, Marianne : a love story / by Kari Hesthamar; translated by Helle V. Goldman.
Translation of: So long, Marianne : ei kjærleikshistorie.
ISBN 978-1-77090-501-6 (epub)
Also issued as 978-1-77041-128-9 (cloth) and 978-1-77090-500-9 (pdf)
1. Ihlen, Marianne. 2. Cohen, Leonard, 1934–. 3. Jensen, Axel, 1932–. 4. Authors—Biography.
5. Hydra Island (Greece). I. Goldman, Helle Valborg, translator II. Title.
CT1308.I55H4713 2014
920.72 C2014-900541-5 C2014-900542-3
Cover image: James Burke/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Photo on page 3: Jean Marc Appert
Photo of Helle Goldman by Jon Winther-Hansen
Photo of Kari Hesthamar by Maia Østerud (NRK)
Cover design: Tania Craan
Interior design and type: Rachel Ironstone
This translation has been published with the financial support of norla.
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.
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