CHESTERTON KEITH GILBERT
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
Translated by Maria Skibniewska
Wrapper, cover,and title page designed by Lidia Boguslawska-Rompalska
Issue I
G.K. Chesterton's metaphysical thriller combines surrealism with fantasy in the convention of a lingering horror story.
In London during the reign of King Edward, a young man named Gabriel Syme is contacted by a Scotland Yard agent. Quickly recruited by the police, who aim to infiltrate and cripple anarchist organizations, young Syme is targeted by a suspected anarchist connection to a man named Gregory. The literary-trained Syme debates with the man and gains access to his shady organization, the Council of European Anarchists. The clues lead Syme to France, where his overriding goal becomes to determine the identity of the council's members, whose nicknames are derived from the names of the days of the week, and expose their criminal plans...
"The real characters of this book are ideas. Chesterton's convoluted project, on the whole, is quite simple: to show that parlor nihilism and moral relativism are diabolical. However, it would be completely uninteresting if the author did not simultaneously give the devil his due. With every bit of his imagination and rhetorical flair Chesterton brings to life the forces of chaos and anarchy."
Jonathan Lethem, author of Orphaned Brooklyn
One of the most famous British novels of the 20th century.
Warsaw 1958, "PAX" Publishing Institute, pp. 206, format: 12.5x19.5 cm
PUBLISHER'S SOFTCOVER WITH WRAPPER
Condition BDB-/ minimal rips of the wrapper, NICE piece
