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, wri...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics; 1st edition (March 12, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780940322615
ISBN-13: 978-0940322615
ASIN: 0940322617
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 546900
Format: PDF ePub TXT book
reviews:In recent years we've been treated to many thoughtful and highly readable studies on the nature of biography itself, such as in Richard Holmes's FOOTSTEPS and Janet Malcolm's THE SILENT WOMAN. Symons's THE QUEST FOR CORVO could almost be a sketch for...
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