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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography

By A.J.A. Symons, A. S. Byatt (Introduction)
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By A.J.A. Symons, A. S. Byatt (Introduction)
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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...

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