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Franco Maria Ricci Editore
Library of Babel
10350

L’occhio di Apollo

Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Edited and with an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges
1979 I ed. . Language: Italian
A collection of short stories by the British writer Chesterton, a specialist in this type of narrative, set against a backdrop of gloomy Scottish castles, ancient cults, and disguises.
To say that a person as good-natured and affable as Chesterton was also a secretive man, who felt the horror of things, may sound surprising, but his work, against his will, bears witness to this: he compares the plants in a garden to chained animals, marble to a solidified moonlight, gold to a frozen bonfire and night to a cloud larger than the world and a monster made of eyes. The fantastic London that appears in Chesterton’s tales captivates the reader. This book includes Chesterton’s best short story, with a long white road and white horses, a fine game of chess: The Three Horsemen of Apocalypse. In The Honour of Israel Gow a seemingly insoluble mystery is recounted; in The Eye of Apollo we witness the execution of a crime. Literature is one of the forms of happiness and Chesterton is an example of this. His theology was essential for the construction of this work.
Franco Maria Ricci Editore
Franco Maria Ricci Editore