Nonsense and Happiness

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]

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