When fiction strives to shape reality and reaches its limits, the consequences are often unpredictable. Literary fantasy becomes relevant and density, just as it does when it causes magic acts has decided to invoke their spells. Peter Stamm, a new and powerful name of European narrative created in this first novel a space in which art and life, literature and reality govern a dense and indivisible plot, where the literature seems to be the dominant force in the fate of a stubborn loving couple in exorcise. Burning and painful, Agnes reveals a voice of rare singularity in the literary landscape of this new century.