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xv, 293 pages : 22 cm, First published in the United States in 1934, this extraordinary tale follows A.J.A. Symons's eight-year quest to uncover the life story of Frederick Rolfe - a.k.a. the Baron Corvo, a lonely, arrogant genius - and construct something remarkable of it. The author of the brilliant novel Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo was by turns a gifted painter, teacher, student of the priesthood, historian, and inventor of a process of \"deep sea photography.\" He also had a veritable genius for making enemies and lived out his last years as a penniless exile. With letters (many of them masterpieces of invective), excerpts from his novels, and accounts of unusual interviews with Corvo's friends, fans, and enemies, Symons chronicles a passionate investigation into Corvo's secret life - and produces an uproariously comic, ultimately tragic, and stunningly rendered work of art, Includes bibliographical references (page xv) and index

Author

Symons, A. J. A. (Alphonse James Albert), 1900-1941

Publisher

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780880014830

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography