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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (New York Review Books Classics)
The Quest for Corvo An Experiment in Biography - New York Review Books Classics Author:A. J. A. Symons One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfes Hadrian the Seventh. He hadnt, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novela masterpieceand no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portr... more »ait 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 biographers art.« less