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...
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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
Title; Contents; A Wild, Mad, Hilarious and Profoundly Moving Tale; Chapter I The Two Poets of Saffron Park; Chapter II The Secret of Gabriel Syme; Chapter III The Man Who was Thursday; Chapter IV The Tale of a Detective; Chapter V The Feast of Fear; Chapter VI The Exposure; Chapter VII The Unaccountable Conduct of Professor de Worms; Chapter VIII The Professor Explains; Chapter IX The Man in Spectacles; Chapter X The Duel; Chapter XI The Criminals Chase the Police; Chapter XII The Earth in Anarchy; Chapter XIII The Pursuit of the President; Chapter XIV The Six Philosophers
