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by A.J.A. Symons (Author) "MY QUEST FOR Corvo was started by accident one summer afternoon in 1925, in the company of Christopher Millard ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: New York Review Books; New Ed edition (1 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0940322617
  • ISBN-13: 978-0940322615
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.8 x 2.1 cm
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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 be priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, sutitled '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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5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping page turner, 12 Jul 2008
By Ms. L. R. Fisher "lucy_fisher4" (London) - See all my reviews
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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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