Article: Unsichtbare Frauen.

With her latest prose work, the Austrian writer Evelyn Schlag presents readers with a collection of three very different stories. As the title Unsichtbare Frauen (Invisible Women) suggests, all three stories focus on women made "invisible" by circumstances in their lives. How the women are perceived or not perceived and how they perceive themselves is often determined through their relationships with men. In these stories the reader is called upon to think about different kinds and degrees of love, the "gender" of love, and gendered perception.

Schlag draws readers into a variety of situations which depict the lives of "invisible" women, the most obvious being the ...