G. K. Chesterton: Man Who Was Thursday (EBook, 2022)
eBook
English language
Published Nov. 5, 2022
Sometimes described as thrilling, sometimes as comic, and sometimes as metaphysical or spiritual, The Man Who Was Thursday is perhaps a little of each. The tale begins when an undercover policeman infiltrates a mysterious Anarchist group. As the novel progresses, things become more comic and improbable, and eventually evolve in to a sort of abstract, dreamlike state. Filled with Christian allegory, Thursday is a glittering, fascinating exploration of good versus evil and theology through the lens of adventure, wit, and the surreal.
βThe whole gave him a sensation, the vividness of which he could not explain, that Nature was always making quite mysterious jokes.β
The best parts of this are definitely Chesterton's humor. The plot is better taken as an elaborate slapstick, which according to his own essays on the subject it was really meant to be. A satire on pessimistic philosophy taken perhaps a few chapters too far.
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