«Ao lermos Chesterton, somos dominados por uma extraordinária sensação de felicidade. A sua prosa é o oposto da prosa académica: é rejubilante. As palavras ressaltam e desencadeiam faíscas entre si, como se um brinquedo de corda ganhasse vida de repente, fazendo girar e disparar todos os botões do bom senso, o mais surpreendente dos prodígios.» [Da Introdução de Alberto Manguel] «Acredito que Chesterton é um dos principais escritores do nosso tempo, não só pela criatividade, imaginação visual e alegria infantil ou divina evidente na sua escrita, mas também pelo talento retórico e puro brilhantismo da sua arte (…). É desnecessário falar da magia e do brilho de Chesterton. Eu quero ponderar outras virtudes do famoso escritor: a sua admirável modéstia e a sua cortesia.» [Jorge Luis Borges]
Author
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly. Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
