The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by G. K. Chesterton
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A member of Scotland Yard’s secret anti-anarchist police corps, Gabriel Syme infiltrates the local European anarchist council only to discover that the group is not what it presents itself to be. Acting as Thursday, one of the elite central council, Syme has access to the innermost secrets and goals of the organization, and, as he races to stop the president, Sunday, from unleashing anarchy in Europe, discovers to his surprise that he is not alone in his mission.
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by G. K. Chesterton- Published on: 2015-10-13
- Released on: 2015-10-20
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About the Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A novel about conspiracies with in conspiracies! By Christine Richardson Please be careful and don't read too much about this book and spoil the ending, as this ending is much too powerful and thought provoking to miss reading for yourself.In my opinion, its a book and story much more suited to today then when it was written, but than again Chesterton knew more of governments and secrete societies and who was really behind them (its not what you think - read the book and don't even try and guess), then I do. He was somewhat connected without being part of the establishment, often on the outs with it.So this book, about a plan to bring down governments, but focused on England, is about the government infiltration of a group of anarchists - but you could see it as international terrorists - its all the same. The point of the novel is who is behind such groups, who supports them, funds them and who are the people who make up the leadership and cadre...Fascinating! Really, really enjoyed it, brilliant!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. I feel lucky to have found this book, it was an unexpected joy, and will be read again. By Felicity Barrington Like Kafka, and TV's The Prisoner (1960's), The Many Who was Thursday is a terrific read. Below this review is a spoiler, so don't read anything past this paragraph - I can tell you if you are wondering sometimes at what or who is behind the headlines - one can suspect that Chesterton had some interesting ideas about 'world wide conspiracy' and what or how was behind them. I feel lucky to have found this book, it was an unexpected joy, and will be read again.Warning: Spoiler Alert!!!In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task-force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was just as mysteriously employed and assigned to defeat the Council of Days. They all soon find out that they are fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of the genius Sunday. In a dizzying and surreal conclusion, the six champions of order and former anarchist ring-leaders chase down the disturbing and whimsical Sunday, the man who calls himself "The Peace of God".
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. An Allegorical Nightmare By A Certain Bibliophile This review contains spoilers.This was originally published in 1908 when Chesterton, one of the greatest Christian apologists of the first third of the twentieth century, was still a Protestant. He wouldn't convert to Catholicism until the 1920s. Yet even as a Protestant, he had managed to do some wonderful writing, including "Orthodoxy," his classic defense of the inner workings of Christian faith. However, I found this book to be less successful. The characters were so obviously meant to be symbols of something above and beyond themselves that it comes across more as a fable (or, as the subtitle has it, a "nightmare") than a realist novel.The main struggle Chesterton presents - relentlessly forced down your throat until you almost can't bear it anymore - is that of anarchy versus order. Gabriel Syme (paladin of law and order) is a member of the Scotland Yard division that keeps an eye on political anarchists. He meets Gregory, an anarchist, at a party where they discuss what makes poetry poetic. Is it law, rationality, and reason - or disorder and anarchy? Syme suggests that Gregory is only a tongue-in-cheek anarchist, since he rightfully claims that total anarchy would never be able to accomplish its political goals. Gregory counters by offering to take Syme to an underground anarchist meeting to show him that they really do exist.The rest proceeds almost predictably: we find that one member after another of the anarchist council is also working undercover as a member for the Scotland Yard. In fact, of the seven members (each named after a day of the week), five of them are discovered to be police officers. The first time or two this is surprising; by the fifth time, I was almost rolling my eyes. By the end, we find out that not even the leader of the group, Sunday, is an anarchist. Instead, he too has been a force for good.In the end, everything comes off sounding like a paean to reason and rationality, but the message comes off as both heavy-handed and confused, as difficult as that is to imagine. Maybe it was the overt force of the message mixed with the phantasmagoric style on top of the need for Chesterton to turn absolutely into a symbol with some latent meaning. There were just too many things he was trying to do here, and none of them come off with any virtuosity.
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