Description
| Product ID: | 9780940322615 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Quest For Corvo |
| Authors: | Author: A.J.A. Symons |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | NYRB Classics |
| Publisher Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-03-31 |