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Святой Франциск Ассизский
Файл электронной книги подготовлен в Агентстве ФТМ, Лтд., 2013
239 pages, Kindle Edition
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G.K. Chesterton
4,692 books5,861 followersGilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, 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 to 200 more, 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 priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years 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.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, 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 to 200 more, 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 priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years 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.
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November 10, 2022
Пылкая и вдохновенная повесть-биография Честертона о Франциске увлекает и дарит несколько неожиданных мыслей даже далекому от религиозного понимания мира читателю. Честертон избирает биографический прием необычного свойства — он выделяет несколько мыслей, важных для него, важных ему — и биографический очерк отступает от строгого следования хронологии событий Франциска, следуя за мыслью автора. Честертон акцентирует внимание на личности Франциска (не святого с т.з. канонических житий), пишет его портрет человека (так Федор Годунов-Чердынцев дарит нам подслеповатые глаза Чернышевского, когда тот то и дело протирает свои стеклышки в Петропавловской крепости ли, в ссылке ли); так и Франциск у Честертона то пылко бежит за "братцем" (именно так переводчик мило переводит принятое у Ф. обращение к братьям), то мало спит, то удивляется красоте мира, радуется, любит и плачет, все вместе. Поэтом называет Ч. Франциска, и это, право слово, удивительный взгляд; я не знала, что все молитвы Ф. написаны ритмизированной прозой; но что без Ф., по мнению многих, не было бы Данте, знала.
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