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- Publisher: The Folio Society; Reprint edition (1992)
- ASIN: B000PHVWLO
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,011,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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MY QUEST FOR Corvo was started by accident one summer afternoon in 1925, in the company of Christopher Millard. Read the first page
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Yes, it's the biography of an obscure early 20th century writer of historical novels who successively charmed and alienated everybody he came across. But it's also the story of a journey, as we'd call it now - how the biographer stumbled across his subject and followed a trail of clues that led him along a twisted trail that ended in a wintry Venice where his subject squandered money lavishly or else lived in a boat on three rolls a day. Yes, everybody does it now, in books and TV documentaries, but Symons did it first and keeps you gripped up to the very last page. It may encourage you to read "Corvo's" books (his real name was Frederick Rolfe), whose construction is equally clever and "modern" but whose prose is a jewelled mix of English, Latin and Greek.
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This book (described as 'an experiment in biography') has been highly regarded for years, partly due to the extraordinary character it depicts & partly due to its account of the protracted & complex investigation carried out by its author. 'Baron Corvo', real name Frederick Rolfe aka 'Fr Rolfe' was the son of a Cheapside piano tuner who was dismissed from studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood & then led an impoverished picaresque life around Britain & latterly Venice, functioning variously as an author, artist, photographer, inventor, conman (& allegedly pimp for boys in Venice). He is best known for his wish-fulfilment fantasy 'Hadrian VII', in which a poor English Catholic with priestly aspirations becomes Pope & sets Europe to rights before being martyred. Rolfe's personality was clearly narcissistic & paranoid, leading him into repeated disputes & legal conflicts. It took much effort on the author's part to track down people who knew Rolfe & were prepared to share their experiences of him, but the result is an astounding portrait of a very odd & unsympathetic yet strangely fascinating man.
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The reviewer who refers to the book as being about Crowley has got his wires crossed. This is a first-rate quest biography about Frederick Rolfe, the author of Hadrian VII among other works. For Crowley see Perdurabo.
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