{"title":"James Reidel","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Reidel's work invites readers into a rich landscape of \u003cem\u003epoetry\u003c\/em\u003e and theatrical storytelling, blending sharp wit with profound insight. His collections, ranging from evocative poems to engaging comedies, explore themes of human experience with a distinctive artistic voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the realms of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e, Reidel’s writing captures both the spirit of creative expression and the nuances of personal narrative, offering a compelling journey for those drawn to thoughtful and expressive literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"manons-world-by-james-reidel-9780857427496","title":"Manon's World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eManon Gropius (1916–1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In \u003ci\u003eManon’s World\u003c\/i\u003e, James Reidel explores the life and death of a child at the centre of a broken love triangle. The story takes a unique course, describing a peripheral figure but in a context where her significance and centrality in the lives of her famous parents and circles comes into relief. Reidel reveals a neglected and fascinating life in a world gone by—Vienna, Venice, and Berlin of the interwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot just a narrative biography, \u003ci\u003eManon’s World\u003c\/i\u003e is also a medical history of the polio that killed Manon and a personal cultural history of the aspirations projected on her—and seen as lost by such keen observers as Elias Canetti, who devoted two chapters of his Nobel Prize–winning memoirs to his encounters with Manon and her funeral. That event led Alban Berg to dedicate his signature Violin Concerto “to an angel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReidel reveals a more complex image of a young woman who desired to be an actress and artist in her own right despite being her mother’s intended protégé, an inspiration to her father who rarely saw her, and her stepfather Franz Werfel, who obsessively wrote her into his novels, beginning with \u003ci\u003eThe Forty Days of Musa Dagh\u003c\/i\u003e and as a revenant in all the books that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855806025964,"sku":"9780857427496","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7200493482493.jpg?v=1759278546"},{"product_id":"comedies-by-james-reidel-9781803090498","title":"Comedies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFew writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878–1956) has seen in recent years. As more of his previously little-known work has been translated into English, readers have discovered a unique writer whose off-kilter sensibility and innovations in form are perfectly suited to our fragmented, distracted, bewildering era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe short plays presented here, inspired by the German theatre Walser enjoyed in his youth, while never meant to be performed, present scenes, characters, and situations that comment on the brutality of fairy tales, the impossibilities of love, the dark fate of the Christ child (and Walser himself), and more. At the same time, like all of Walser’s work, they are infused with a humour that is wholly genuine despite its shades of darkness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGathering all of Walser’s plays, as well as his later, fragmentary dramatic writings, \u003cem\u003eComedies\u003c\/em\u003e will be celebrated by the many devoted fans of this lately rediscovered master.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455536709868,"sku":"9781803090498","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61bbn-iOAdL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774780498"},{"product_id":"collected-poems-by-james-reidel-9781803090504","title":"Collected Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBernhard’s \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a key to understanding Bernhard’s irascible black comedy found in virtually all of his writings—even down to his last will and testament.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought and increasingly personal verse, with such titles as \u003cem\u003eOn Earth and in Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIn Hora Mortis\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eUnder the Iron of the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBernhard’s early poetry, bearing the influence of Georg Trakl, begins with a deep connection to his Austrian homeland. As his poems saw publication and recognition, Bernhard seemed always on the verge of joining the ranks of Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, and other young post-war poets writing in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring this time, however, his poems became increasingly more obsessive, filled with undulant self-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory, bardic voice utterly estranged from his country. All of this resulted in a magisterial work of anti-poetry—one that represents Bernhard’s own harrowing experience with his leitmotif of success and failure, which makes his fiction such a pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is much to be found in these pages for Bernhard fans of every stripe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462720110828,"sku":"9781803090504","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803090504-collected-poems.jpg?v=1775022120"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/james-reidel.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}