The Quest For Corvo
an experiment in biography
$41.25
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2006
Summary
The Enigmatic Baron Corvo: A Quest for Genius and Self-Destruction
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322615 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940322617 |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Author: | A.J.A. Symons |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 124mm x 21mm |
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An ingenious account of the strange life of English writer Frederick Rolfe, or Baron Corvo. Emphasising patterns - or terrible recurrences - in his subject’s life, Symons reveals the man, his sufferings and his unspeakable sins. Independent on Sunday
About The Author
A.J.A. Symons
A.J.A. Symons (1900-1941) pursued a wide variety of projects in his short life, writing and editing works on the verse of the 1890s, the history of the Nonesuch Press, and critical studies of various figures of note. He is remembered for his groundbreaking biography of the bizarre genius Baron Corvo and for his own eccentric hobbies, as chronicled in a biography written by his brother, the mystery novelist Julian Symons.
A. S. Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer’s Tale, and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. Her most recent novel, The Children’s Book was published in 2009.
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