Matthew reviewed The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Surreal, thoughtful, hilarious.
5 stars
“The whole gave him a sensation, the vividness of which he could not explain, that Nature was always making quite mysterious jokes.”
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, …