Nonsense and Happiness
| Author | Peter Handke |
|---|---|
| Original title | Als das Wünschen noch geholfen hat |
| Translator | Michael Roloff |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Suhrkamp Verlag |
| Publication date | 6 January 1974 |
| Publication place | West Germany |
Published in English | 1976 |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 978-3-518-36708-7 |
Nonsense and Happiness (German: Als das Wünschen noch geholfen hat, lit. 'When Wishing Still Helped') is a 1974 book by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is a collection of poems, reviews and other previously published texts, including Handke's acceptance speech for the 1973 Georg Büchner Prize.[1][2][3][4] Michael Wood of The New York Review of Books described it as "a book of rambling meditative poems".[5] The German title appears in the opening of several tales from the Brothers Grimm, notably "The Frog Prince".[1]
References
- 1 2 Schulz-Ojala, Jan (31 December 2015). "Zum Jahreswechsel: Die Kraft des Wünschens: Es wird einmal". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ Marranca, Bonnie G. (1977). "Reviewed Works: The Ride across Lake Constance and Other Plays by Peter Handke, Michael Roloff, Carl Weber; Nonsense and Happiness by Peter Handke, Michael Roloff; Three by Peter Handke by Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim, Michael Roloff". Performing Arts Journal. 2 (1): 104–105. doi:10.2307/3244976.
- ↑ Renner, Rolf G. (2023). Peter Handke: Narrative Worlds – Pictorial Orders. Berlin: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 74. doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05932-1. ISBN 978-3-476-05932-1.
- ↑ Michel, Volker (1998). Verlustgeschichten. Peter Handkes Poetik der Erinnerung (in German). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. p. 63. ISBN 9783826014116.
- ↑ Wood, Michael (24 June 1977). "Play It Again, Franz". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 3 September 2025.