The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare
Overview
2011 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare" is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781614270126
- ISBN-10: 1614270120
- Publisher: Martino Fine Books
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 196
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