„Agnes je mrtvá. Zabil ji tento příběh.“ Těmito větami začíná novela Agnes (1998), dle kritiky jedno z nejzásadnějších děl německy psané literatury posledního desetiletí. Příběh lecléziovské jemnokresby o pomalém vánku bolesti milostného zapomnění. Příběh v příběhu, ve kterém se odehrává jiná láska, která je bližší realitě než láska skutečná. Na tomto půdorysu Stammův román řeší nejen milostný vztah mezi dvěma racionálně založenými lidmi, ale i vztah mezi fikcí a skutečností, lží a pravdou, a rozpracovává téma vlivu...

After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually realizes that her husband has not just gotten up early to go to work. She waits for as long as she can and then puts as much energy as she can into trying to find him - coming to understand, along the way, that there is little she can do if Thomas is striving to stay lost. In precise and hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel, To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe...

Christoph, a middle-aged writer, has a story to share with Lena, a young actress. A long time ago, he was in a relationship with a woman called Magdalena, who was also an actress. Lena is currently in a relationship with a man called Chris, who is also a writer. As the two talk, it becomes clear that the two relationships contain echoes, similarities, and coincidences too remarkable to be called coincidences. Are Chris and Lena doomed to repeat Christoph and Magdalena's broken relationship, or are Christoph and Magdalena a warning from the future? Who really exists? Is there such a thing as...