quick short story. Mysteries aren't my goto genre, but I am interested in reading more about Father Brown, I like his observations. You see," said Father Brown, blinking modestly, "I'm not sure that the Armstrong cheerfulness is so very cheerfulfor other people, You say that nobody could kill such a happy old man, but I'm not sure ne nos inducas in tentationem, If ever I murdered somebody," he added quite simply, "I dare say it might be an Optimist, " "Why" cried Merton amused. "Do you think people dislike cheerfulness" "People like frequent laughter," answered Father Brown, "but I don't think they like a permanent smile, Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing, Brilliant, touching, and just fantastic! sitelinkMy review for all of the Father Brown stories, The cry goes up, Sir Aaron Armstrong has been murdered, But can Father Brown determine the guilty party,
An enjoyable short story Not exactly exciting, . En el último relato de este volumen, Chesterton
practica una nueva inversión del policial clásico: .
Esta solución exige un camino un tanto sinuoso, lleno de conveniencias narrativas y, cómo no, de la ya típica bajada de línea católica.
Es una historia más bien desprolija, y, de manera acorde al ethos del padre Brown, se llega a la conclusión no por análisis de la evidencia material sino por una correcta interpretación psicológica tanto de la presunta víctima como del presunto victimario.
Cuentode El candor del padre Brown
Anterior: “The Sign of the Broken Sword”
Not a whodunit but a slow reveal of making sense of incongruities.
There is a lesson about not taking things at surface value, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic,
He was educated at St, Pauls, and went to art school at University College London, In, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time.
He wrote a hundred books, contributions tomore, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priestdetective, Father Brown.
In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist, He wrote overnewspaper essays, includingyears worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, andyears of weekly columns for the Daily News.
He also edited his own newspaper, G, K. s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology, .