by Peter Handke · Residenz Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783701700295
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«Wunschloses Unglück» is the story by Austrian writer Peter Handke, published by Residenz Verlag in hardcover (106 pages, in German).
Semi-autobiographical story in which Peter Handke reconstructs his mother's life after her suicide in 1971: social pressures and everyday oppression in rural Austria drove her to despair. His sober, analytical prose reflects on the limits of language to express pain.
Subtitled «Erzählung», the work was originally published in 1972 and appeared within the category of literature and fiction.
For readers of contemporary German literature interested in an introspective work combining personal memory and social criticism.
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.
