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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.