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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

A.J.A. Symons
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One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled "an experiment in biography," is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art.
Language
English
Pages
289
Format
Paperback
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Release
March 31, 2001
ISBN
0940322617
ISBN 13
9780940322615

The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

A.J.A. Symons
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled "an experiment in biography," is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art.
Language
English
Pages
289
Format
Paperback
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Release
March 31, 2001
ISBN
0940322617
ISBN 13
9780940322615

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