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The Quest for Corvo

An Experiment in Biography

A. J. A. Symons

The Quest for Corvo
The Quest for Corvo

The Quest for Corvo

An Experiment in Biography

A. J. A. Symons

Paperback | Engels
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Omschrijving

Part detective story, part spiritual journey, and part meditation on biography. Steeped in arcane learning, queer encounters, and fanciful symbolist prose, it is a very peculiar operation indeed, leaving he reader unconvinced that there was ever such a real person as Frederick Rolfe - or, possibly, his biographer

Part detective story, part spiritual journey, and part meditation on biography. Steeped in arcane learning, queer encounters, and fanciful symbolist prose, it is a very peculiar operation indeed, leaving he reader unconvinced that there was ever such a real person as Frederick Rolfe - or, possibly, his biographer

A slender book, an odd book, a completely original book ... a masterpiece

One of the genre's most notable - if also quirkiest - triumphs

Extraordinary ... a new template for twentieth-century biography

The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Penguin Classics
  • Verschenen
    feb. 2018
  • Bladzijden
    272
  • Genre
    Biografie: schrijvers
  • Afmetingen
    198 x 129 x 15 mm
  • Gewicht
    202 gram
  • EAN
    9780241312995
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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