The Quest for Corvo
An Experiment in Biography
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Book information
Random House Inc
USA
2001
Paperback
289
Standard
247615
978-0-940322-61-5
0-940322-61-7
Authors, English; 19th century; Biography.
Annotation
This biography of an earlier biographer was written in 1934 by A.J.A. Symons with the goal that it should be as compelling as a detective story. In it Symons tells of his own unearthing of the documents of his very odd subject, Fr. Rolfe (in her introduction, A.S. Byatt quotes Freud's diagnosis of repetition compulsion as a description of Rolfe), his tracking down of betrayed friends and collaborators, and his collusion with other interested parties before he settles in to exploring the lurid details of Rolfe's life as the self-styled "Baron Corvo".
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