Deutsches Haus at NYU, New Directions, and the New York Institute for the Humanities present “Ingeborg Bachmann: The Complete Stories,” which will include readings from the new book and a conversation between the book’s translators, Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis, that will be moderated by Dorothee Elmiger. Ingeborg Bachmann: The Complete Stories(2026, New Directions) spans three decades of work from one of the most important German-language writers of the last century. Each of these short stories, beautifully translated by Philip Boehm and Tess Lewis, depict people at a crossroads, facing decisions about life, truth, love, and death. In addition to the collections "Three Paths to the Lake" and "The Thirtieth Year," this volume includes many stories that have never appeared in English before. In this collection, we find Ingeborg Bachmann exploring the limits of language and experience, grappling with the maladies of modern civilization, with love and sex, with patriarchy and its brutalities.
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