Deception by Philip Roth: “I wanted to carry on endlessly about "The Blood of the Walsungs" and "Michael Kohlhaas" and "In the Ravine."”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “And it was about this same time that I first read "In the Ravine," in which we don't realize that the peasant girl Lipa is our heroine until almost halfway through.”