The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (Valancourt eClassics)
A.J.A. Symons’s life is changed forever when his friend Millard, a dealer in rare books, lends him an old tome and a stack of manuscript letters. The book is Hadrian the Seventh (1904), the work of one “Fr. Rolfe”; it is a brilliant and bizarre fantasy, in which a downtrodden English writer is one day unexpectedly elected Pope. The letters tell of the final days of Rolfe (alias Baron Corvo) in Ve...
By A.J.A. Symons
File Size: 3041 KB
Print Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Valancourt Books (September 8, 2014)
Publication Date: September 8, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00NFTL390
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In recent years we've been treated to many thoughtful and highly readable studies on the nature of biography itself, such as in Richard Holmes's FOOTSTEPS and Janet Malcolm's THE SILENT WOMAN. Symons's THE QUEST FOR CORVO could almost be a sketch for these later, deeper studies in its very metatextu...
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