James Reidel is a poet, translator, and biographer. In
addition to collections of his own poems, he has published
translations of works by Georg Trakl, Franz Werfel, Robert Walser,
Thomas Bernhard, and others. A fellow of the James Merrill House,
he wrote Manon’s World after nearly a decade of research.
"A remarkable book, Manon’s World brilliantly evokes an
extraordinary set of individuals in an urgent time and place:
Austria during and after the First World War. Reidel’s sure hand
weaves together the stories of the people surrounding and
interacting with Manon. The result is a dazzling narrative that
transports us to a lost world peopled by some of the remarkable
characters in recent history. A story so compelling it is hard to
put down."
*Mary Dearborn, biographer and author*
"Everyone in 1930s Vienna seemed to be agreed that Manon Gropius
was an angel... Her stepfather was the poet, playwright and
novelist Franz Werfel. She died at eighteen of polio and its
complications. And she was not an angel. The figure who emerges in
James Reidel's impressionistic biography is altogether less exalted
and far more ordinary."
*Times Literary Supplement*
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