Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English social and literary critic, author of verses, essays, novels, and short stories. His most emblematic work was The Man Who Was Thursday. The narrative is set at the end of the 19th century in a context filled with anarchist conspiracies and mysteries involving theological enigmas, free will, and the existence of evil in the form of the irrational. The protagonist is Detective Gabriel Syme, a poet committed to the fight against chaos, who was recruited by the anti-anarchist section of Scotland Yard. The Man Who Was Thursday was published to great success in 1908. It is a philosophical novel filled with action, adventure, and suspense that continues to captivate readers today, presenting them with paradoxes and moral and theological reflections that make them question themselves with every chapter.
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Born in England, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was a social and literary critic, author of verses, essays, novels, and short stories, and he was also known for his exuberant personality. Chesterton attended St. Paul’s School and later studied art at the Slade School and literature at University College London. His writings up to 1910 were of three types: social criticism, where he expressed strongly pro-Boer views during the South African War and advocated for land distribution; literary criticism, where he wrote poems and novels; and lastly, and no less importantly, he wrote about theology and religious argumentation. Chesterton converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922, and although he had written about Christianity in his book Orthodoxy (1909), his conversion added a touch of controversy to his later works, such as The Catholic Church and Conversion. In his writings, Chesterton sought to clearly express his distrust of world governments and evolutionary progress. His view was often ruralist, anti-modernist, and Victorian.
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