A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

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-Heretics (1905)
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Since recently posting about one famous Argentinian in reference to Chesterton, here is the thoughts of another one, Jorge Luis Borges, about GKC's "Father Brown" stories:

"Chesterton said that there had never been detective stories better than those of Poe, but Chesterton himself seems to me better than Poe."

[quoted in The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton, Martin Gardner, p. 91 (2008)]

2 comments:

coffeepotcurve said...

I like Chesterton better then Poe myself. Of course I never could get past Poe's morbidity. So needless to say harder to appreciate his mystery.

Mike said...

:-) Well, I haven't ever read anything by Poe (except for "The Raven", of course, at school), so I cannot compare and contrast the two....That said, I have a feeling I would prefer Chesterton to Poe in any case (and that quite apart from my great love for GKC; I would probably prefer most people to Poe, for precisely the reason of the latter's morbidity.)