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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Quest For Corvo
• Author: A.J.A. Symons
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780940322615
• ISBN: 0940322617
• ID: 04948569
• Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
• Weight: 328 g
• Dimensions: 202 × 126 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. March 2001

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