| book details |

Manon's World: A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel

By (author) James Reidel

| on special |

normal price: R 769.95

Price: R 730.95

| add to trolley |

| book description |

At once a narrative biography and a medical history, Manonâ€™s World tells the story of a haunted young woman caught in the middle of a love triangle in interwar Germany. Manon Gropius (1916â€“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 Manonâ€™s World, James Reidel explores the life and death of a child at the center 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 byâ€”Vienna, Venice, and Berlin of the interwar years. Â Not just a narrative biography, Manonâ€™s World is also a medical history of the polio that killed Manon and a personal cultural history of the aspirations projected on herâ€”and seen as lost by such keen observers as Elias Canetti, who devoted two chapters of his Nobel Prizeâ€“winning memoirs to his encounters with Manon and her funeral. That event led Alban Berg to dedicate his signature Violin Concerto â€œto an angel.â€ Reidel reveals a more complex image of a young woman who desired to be an actress and artist in her own right despite being her motherâ€™s intended protÃ©gÃ©, an inspiration to her father who rarely saw her, and her stepfather Franz Werfel, who obsessively wrote her into his novels, beginning with The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and as a revenant in all the books that followed. Â

| product details |

| other options |

Normally shipped | Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks as supplier is out of stock
Readership Age |

Normal Price | R 947.95
Price | R 900.95 | on special |

| add to trolley |

| back |

| your trolley |

To view the items in your trolley please sign in.

| sign in |

| specials |

The Thing at 52

Mr. Ross Montgomery
Hardback
40 pages
was: R 363.95
now: R 345.95
Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock

The Thing at 52 is aÂ beautiful picture book about friendship, loneliness and learning how to say goodbye.

| more |

| add to trolley |

The Silent Patient: The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation

Alex Michaelides
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 280.95
now: R 252.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock

With film rights snapped up by an Oscar winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and A.

| more |

| add to trolley |

Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

Laura Dodsworth
Paperback / softback
384 pages
was: R 300.95
now: R 270.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

| more |

| add to trolley |