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 this singular
work, subtitled "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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