by Peter Handke · Wereldbibliotheek · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789028451117
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«Ongezocht ongeluk: een vertelling» is the novel by Peter Handke, published by Wereldbibliotheek in paperback (96 pages, in Dutch).
The narrator reconstructs the life of his mother, an Austrian woman who, married before World War II to a man she does not love, becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage until a tragic outcome. Handke turns personal memory into a reflection on loss, solitude and the fragility of existence.
Work originally published as «Wunschloses Unglück» in 1972. This Dutch edition, translated by Martin Mooij, was published by Wereldbibliotheek in 2021.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in autobiographical narratives and in twentieth-century Central European literature.
Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the 20th century.
