Traumatic Experience in Peter Handke's Prose. From Wunschloses Unglück to Die Wiederholung

This article proposes a journey through two novels by Peter Handke (Wunschloses Ungluck and Die Wiederholung) based on an analysis of the ways in which traumatic experience appears. Both works have many points of contact and can be read in continuity, although, according to the hypothe-sis, Die Wiederholung proposes a path of redemption from trauma that will also lead to a new way of understanding narration and writing practice in general. This axis of reading will make possible an approach to Handke's aesthetic evolution, which takes shape around the 1980s and which acquires - according to the conceptualisations of critics and the author himself - epic characters.