Humour et intelligence. Des articles parus en 1927 dans le Illustrated London News. On aimerait bien savoir ce que penserait un Chesterton de notre société contemporaine nourrie d'informatique et de télévision.

À bâtons rompus: propos débridés

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade").- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Contents:The Tremendous Adventures of Major BrownThe Painful Fall of a Great ReputationThe Awful Reason of the Vicar's VisitThe Singular Speculation of the House-agentThe Noticeable Conduct of Professor ChaddThe Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady

Le club des métiers bizarres

This   carefully crafted ebook: "All Father Brown Mysteries - Complete edition" is   formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K.   Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories, most of which were later   compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John   O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's   conversion to Catholicism. The relationship was recorded by O'Connor in his   1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton.
This omnibus contains the following books:
1. The Innocence of Father Brown
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown
3. The Incredulity of Father Brown
4. The Secret of Father Brown
5. The Scandal of Father Brown
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an English writer, lay   theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic,   biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the   "prince of paradox".

All Father Brown Mysteries - Complete edition

Histoire d'une âme, "autobiographie débraillée", cet essai inclassable n'a d'autre prédécesseur que son livre-frère, Hérétiques, paru trois ans plus tôt. Découvert par Paul Claudel, qui en traduisit l'un des chapitres, célébré par Charles Péguy, Orthodoxie est un livre touffu, foisonnant d'images et d'idées, dans lequel Chesterton expose la vigueur de sa foi à coups de paradoxes et de fantaisies. Car le christianisme excentrique de Chesterton est une quête qui conduit à l'émerveillement de l'enfance, c'est-à-dire au royaume des fées. Dénonçant l'injustice capitaliste, les thèses matérialistes et déterministes (à commencer par la théorie de l'évolution), Chesterton leur oppose une faculté irréductible de l'homme, qu'aucune machine ne pourra jamais remplacer: son rire et sa joie.

Orthodoxie

L'œil d'Apollon

English summary: G.K. Chesterton was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, admired and praised by other writers such as Bertran Russell, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. His work encompassed plays, essays, novels, and short stories. Chestertons wit and style shine through in this autobiography finished only a few months before his death. French translation. French description: Voici un ouvrage special deux en un: il est de G.K. Chesterton et sur G.K. Chesterton, ce qui nous offre l'opportunite de constater quel homme remarquable fut son auteur. Chesterton a ete l'un des ecrivains les plus stimulants et apprecies du XXe siecle. Borges le considere comme l'un de ses principaux maitres. D'autres plumes de talent comme Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw dont il etait l'ami ou encore Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Paulhan et bien d'autres ont temoigne une grande admiration pour son oeuvre de geant qui comporte plusieurs centaines de recits, nouvelles, romans, essais, articles et pieces de theatre, sur une tres grande variete de themes. Ce maitre des aphorismes et du paradoxe, brillant et drole, est a ce jour l'auteur le plus cite parmi les ecrivains modernes. Voici donc Chesterton par lui-meme dans un livre qu'il avait dans un premier temps refuse d'ecrire pour se preter finalement a l'exercice a la fin de sa vie, devant l'insistance de ses amis et admirateurs. A la mort de Chesterton, le critique Sydney Dark a ecrit que la chose la plus heureuse sans doute de toute la vie extraordinairement heureuse de l'ecrivain est qu'il avait acheve cette autobiographie quelques semaines avant sa mort. Cette autobiographie excitante, drole et humble est petillante, enivrante comme une coupe, ou plutot plusieurs coupes de champagne litteraire versees les unes apres autres. Des nombreux ouvrages de Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) disponibles en francais, retenons Le Poete et les fous (L'Arbre vengeur, 2011), William Blake (Le Promeneur, 2011), Le secret du Pere Brown et autres nouvelles (Le Livre de poche, 2011), Orthodoxie (Climats, 2010), Heretiques (Climats, 2010), Robert Browning (Le Bruit du Temps, 2009) et Le Club des metiers bizarres (Gallimard, coll. L'Imaginaire, 2003). Comme la plupart de ceux qui eurent vingt-cinq ans vers 1895, Chesterton, eleve dans l'incroyance, avait adopte successivement toutes les doctrines de son temps: il avait ete, tour a tour, evolutionniste en philosophie, anarchiste en politique, ibsenien en morale. Mais sa vie intellectuelle ne devait pas tarder a s'elargir, a devenir plus vigoureuse. Doue d'une intuition merveilleuse, d'une etonnante jeunesse de regard, il allait bientot decouvrir, dans la riche substance de la realite, ces accords admirables, ces correspondances mysterieusement apparentees qui nous relient au monde et que ceux qu'il appelle les vagues esprits modernes ne savent plus reconnaitre. Bien decide a jeter bas le mur maussade qui cache la splendeur de l'univers cree, Chesterton se fit aussitot une belle reputation d'anarchiste et de demolisseur. Henri Massis, De l'homme a Dieu, 1959.

L'homme à la clé d'or: Autobiographie

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing notable about him, except a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes and the official gravity of his face. His clothes included a slight, pale grey jacket, a white waistcoat, and a silver straw hat with a grey-blue ribbon. His lean face was dark by contrast, and ended in a curt black beard that looked Spanish and suggested an Elizabethan ruff. He was smoking a cigarette with the seriousness of an idler. There was nothing about him to indicate the fact that the grey jacket covered a loaded revolver, that the white waistcoat covered a police card, or that the straw hat covered one of the most powerful intellects in Europe. For this was Valentin himself, the head of the Paris police and the most famous investigator of the world; and he was coming from Brussels to London to make the greatest arrest of the century.

The Innocence of Father Brown

"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a bright, brownish little fellow, agile like a monkey, clean-shaven like an actor, and obliging like a born courtier. He seems to have quite a pocketful of money, but nobody knows what his trade is. Mrs. MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.

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