FICTION

Three Paths to the Lake

Three Paths to the Lake, Ingeborg Bachmann's second and final collection of short stories, consists of five narratives about the lives and loves of five different women. Socially uprooted and emotionally isolated, each protagonist struggles with possibilities for survival in the 1960s. Bachmann's portraits reflect a compassionate yet unswerving perception of humanity.

"[Bachmann's prose] is acute and moving... She manages to convey that her women are playing out the Europe of their time and of before their time."
—The New Yorker

Ingeborg Bachmann received the Gruppe 47's annual prize while still in her twenties and was one of the first writers to deliver the now legendary Frankfurt lectures on poetics and to receive the prestigious Georg Büchner Prize.

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