A person with a gold key: autobiography. Chesterton G.K.

“Prince of Paradoxes”, the English writer, poet, Christian figure and philosopher Gilbert Kit Chesteron (1874–1936) wrote a lot of his life. Among his creations are novels, essays, detective stories, numerous essays, moral and philosophical treatises, speeches and poems. One of Chesterton's favorite genres was a biography. He created artistically subtle, exciting biographies for R. Browning, C. Dickens, W. Blake, J. Choser, Saints of the Francis of Assisian and Foma Aquinas and others. The heroes of their biographical essays of people are spiritually close, and in the preface to the first such book, he honestly admitted: “I wrote a book about freedom, poetry, love, my opinions about God and religion, where the word“ browsing ”was found from time to time. There were some facts there, almost all were wrong. But there is something in this book, rather-my youth than the life of browning. ” An autobiography was a peculiar result of these experiments.

written before death, the memories of Chesterton about family and childhood, brothers in the literary workshop, historical events and cataclysms bear the imprint of the latter and therefore the extremely serious word and at the same time are permeated with subtle irony, characteristic of inexhaustible humor , forcing you to believe that life is really like a “number of coups that have a horror of a miracle.”