A.J.A. SYMONS

Prólogo de Juan Manuel Bonet En busca del barón Corvo no es sólo una biografía, es, en última instancia, la historia de la fascinación que Frederick Rolfe –autodenominado barón Corvo- artista, escritor, ex seminarista y homosexual ejerció sobre el biógrafo. El libro reconstruye, como si de una novela de detectives se tratara, la apasio...

The Quest for Corvo: Genius or Charlatan?. Symons, A.J.A.. Penguin Books, 1966

This biography of an earlier biographer was written in 1934 by A.J.A. Symons with the goal that it should be as compelling as a detective story. In it Symons tells of his own unearthing of the documents of his very odd subject, Fr. Rolfe (in her introduction, A.S. Byatt quotes Freud's diagnosis of repetition compulsion as a description of Rolfe), h