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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
I'll nominate The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K.Chesterton.
This is probably Chesterton's best-known novel. It is a wild, surreal, Kafka-esque work which differs from Kafka in that it shows that the apparently whirling chaos actually does have a centre. About.Com describes this classic as
" . . . a book caught up in the question of whether it places itself inside or outside of the sphere of its narrative chaos, yet at the same time a book perfectly content to lose itself in that chaos and, borne by the momentum of its own energy, to keep upping the narrative and metaphysical ante until the end--no matter the cost."
It's a remarkable allegory loaded with remarkable ideas.
It's in the Public Domain and available right here at Mobile Read.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15837 |
Is there an actual description of the book instead of about.com's non-description?