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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
about 80 books: 200 short stories
4000 essays several hundred of
poems plays
6 novels
Novels:The Napoleon of Notting
Hill The Man Who Was
Thursday The Flying Inn The Ball and the Cross
The Return of Don Quixote Manalive
writerjournalist
literary and social critic
historian Catholic theologian and
apologist
Characteristics of Chesterton’s work:
paradoxicality, unexpectedness, incredibility of
situations, moral preaching,
source of joy,they provoke deep
reflexions.
Two principal events of Chesterton’s life:
1. He adopted Catholicism
2. He married Frances Blogg
“Reason is always reasonable” (The Blue
Cross)
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man
has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That
road goes down and down” (The Flying Stars)
“A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of
unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward
across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea”
(Manalive)
tenant – жилецboarding establishment – пансион
antic – нелепая выходкаHigh Court – Верховный
Судto elope – сбежать с
возлюбленным
Burglary - кража со взломом
desertion - оставление (семьи)
madhouse – сумасшедший дом
investigate – расследовать charge – обвинение (юрид.)
to involvе – вовлекать
trial - судеvidence – улика,
свидетельское показаниеto witness – быть
свидетелемinnocent - невинный
fire – стрелятьbullet – пуля
to value – ценитьspinster – незамужняя,
старая дева сourtship – ухаживание to acquit - освободить
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only
a living thing can go against it.” – The Everlasting Man
“Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-
rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and
cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better;
enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the
calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.” The
Common Man
“The whole truth is generally the ally of
virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some
vice.” – ILN
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a
readiness to die.” – Orthodoxy
If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a
black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always
painting it again. Briefly, if you want the old white
post you must have a new white post. Orthodoxy
He had not had the smallest intention of
starving his chauffeur; he did not realise that there
was worse spiritual murder in merely
forgetting him. The Flying Inn.
Sources:1. Sermons and parables
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (article by
N.L. Trauberg)2. Wikipedia
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