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The Quest for Corvo

By - Symons, A. J. A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941 , Symons, Julian, 1912-1994
Floor - Floor 4
Published - New York Review of Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10 - 0940322617
ISBN 13 - 9780940322615
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Authors, English
Shelf No - 2
Call Number - 928.2 SYM
Physical Description - xviii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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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.

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