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 "e;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."e;
| ISBN: | 9781775414971 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 2009 |
| Author: | Chesterton, G. K. |
| Publisher: | The Floating Press |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |