The Quest for Corvo - 9780940322615
Un libro in lingua di Symons A. J. A. Byatt A. S. (INT) edito da New York Review of Books, 2001
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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 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Quest for Corvo
- Sottotitolo: An Experiment in Biography
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Symons A. J. A. Byatt A. S. (INT)
- Editore: New York Review of Books
- Collana: New York Review of Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Marzo '01
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Authors, English 19th century Biography Eccentrics and eccentricities Great Britain Biography British Italy Venice History 19th century
- Pagine: 289
- Peso gr: 317
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 127 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0940322617
- EAN-13: 9780940322615