Quixotic farewell ...

... Michael Holroyd's Lives.

Holroyd describes this unusually compendious volume as “my last book”, and it acts as a sort of coda to his life's work, in which he takes the opportunity to consider the literary form in which he has made his career. As in A. J. A. Symons’s The Quest for Corvo, his pursuit of these minor and not altogether attractive figures becomes part of the story ...