The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
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Author: G. K. ChestertonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09-22
ISBN: 1449529720
Number of pages: 100
Publisher: CreateSpace
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Book Review: A key Chesterton masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Chesterton once described this early work as a bit of moonshine, but a lot of readers clearly think it is more than that. If I described this as a "meditation on the human condition," you'd get the idea that the book isn't any fun --- and that's wrong, the book is a lot of fun. It is typically Chestertonian in that he can hardly get through a paragraph without thoughts and "asides" that are very thought-provoking.
This was one of Kingsley Amis's favorite books --- a bit of a surprise, there! I would guess that Amis was mainly seduced by the gloriously inventive prose, but Amis himself says that he was drawn in by the completely original, Alice-in-Wonderland plot.
And when you're done, you will probably be thinking about two of the main "issues" of the human condition: burning issues that are often turned into dry dust by academic philosophers: free will and the problem of evil. Aren't they related? Leaving aside natural disasters and "acts of God," how can we possibly account for the horrors of the 20th century, and the millions and millions massacred by that century's slave-drivers? The Chestertonian answer is, I suspect, the Christian answer: God would not have bothered to create a race of robots, but instead created man in His own image --- free to choose, and free to act. What follows from that, as night follows the day, is that SOME human beings will choose to do wicked and evil things.
I also find it interesting that Ezra Pound and his circle positively LOATHED G. K. Chesterton, as some sort of backward bourgeois humbug. Well, time will tell. :-)
A very entertaining and stimulating read! Don't miss it, and don't miss Chesterton!
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