The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542576215)

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described 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."

Author: Paula Benitez, G. K. Chesterton
ISBN-10: 1542576210
ISBN-13: 9781542576215
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2017
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d