by Gilbert Keith Chesterton · Diario El País, Clásicos del Siglo XX nº 19, 2003, Madrid. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669819
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«El hombre que fue Jueves» is the detective novel by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, published by Diario El País in hardcover (233 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriel Syme, a poet recruited by Scotland Yard, infiltrates an anarchist council and, thanks to his wit, is elected a member under the name of Thursday. He soon discovers that his colleagues are also undercover policemen and that everything responds to the plan of Sunday, the council's enigmatic leader. A nightmare of false identities and deceptions.
This 2003 edition is number 19 of the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection and includes Alfonso Reyes's translation of the original work The Man Who Was Thursday (1908).
For readers of English literature classics and mystery and intrigue novels.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English Christian apologist writer. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.
