The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908, deals with a philosophical or theological anarchism; more a rejection of God than a rejection of government. The novel was described by Adam Gopnik as ‘one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges.’
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9788832568080 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Publisher JH ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6954518 ● Copy protection without