Cuentos elegidos por Borges de Gilbert K. Chesterton. Este volumen consta de una serie de cuentos que simulan ser policiales y que son mucho más. Cada uno de ellos nos propone un enigma que, a primera vista, es indescifrable. Se sugiere después una solución no menos mágica que atroz y se arriba por fin a la verdad, que procura ser razonable. Cada uno de los cuentos es un apólogo y es asimismo una breve pieza teatral. Los personajes son como actores que entran en escena.
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.
