The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in BiographyNew York Review of Books, 31.03.2001 - 312 Seiten 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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The Problem | 3 |
The Clues | 18 |
The Newspaper Attack | 31 |
The Reluctant Brother | 43 |
The Theological Student | 54 |
The Rejected Priest | 71 |
The Nowt of Holywell | 80 |
The Strange Historian | 105 |
Interregnum | 163 |
The Happy Interval | 175 |
Robert Hugh Benson | 189 |
The Voluntary Exile | 204 |
The Venetian Outcast | 217 |
The Final Benefactor | 234 |
Epitaph | 247 |
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole | 255 |
The Chronicles | 122 |
The Divine Friend | 132 |
The Queer Collaborator | 145 |
The End of the Quest | 266 |
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