名叫星期四的人
The Man Who Was Thursday
Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 初版 1908 年
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- 融合机锋对话与寓言手法的间谍小说
- 结局构思精巧且具有强烈的戏剧反转
- 在悬疑叙事中探讨深层的道德与哲学困境
当你连自己是谁都不知道时，你还能相信自己吗？在伦敦的一座公园里，秘密警察 Gabriel Syme 与一名无政府主义者攀谈起来。Syme 誓要恪尽职守，利用这位新相识打入欧洲的 Central Anarchist Council 做卧底，并潜入他们致命的任务中，甚至成功让自己被投票选为“Thursday”。然而，当 Syme 在委员会中发现另一名卧底警察时，他开始对自己在这场行动中的角色产生怀疑。随着横跨欧洲的亡命追逐拉开序幕，他的困惑愈发加深，同时对自己能力的信心也
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……传记，还有安德烈·阿加西的自传《公开》（Open），那是一本非常引人入胜、读来畅快而且写得惊人出色的书。过去一年里另一本让我眼前一亮的书，是 G·K·切斯特顿的《星期四的男人》（The Man Who Was Thursday）。我觉得这是一部写得极其精彩的寓言式间谍小说，对话特别风趣机智。我接下来的书单打算读点弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫的作品，因为我还没读过他的任何书……
…biographies and Open, Andre Agassi's biography, was a very intriguing, enjoyable, and surprisingly well-written book. The only other book I read this past year that stood out to me was GK Chesterton's The Man Who was Thursday. I thought this was a very well written allegorical spy novel that had some very quippy dialogue. Next on my reading list I would like to read some Vladimir Nabokov since I've never read any of his work.…
如果要聊切斯特顿，《星期四的男人》绝对好玩得不行，不过推荐它会让我陷入道德两难，而且不剧透全篇的话我连这个两难是什么都说不清楚。布朗神父系列里最好看的是哪一本？我一直想找来看看……
If we're going to talk Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday is tremendous fun, though I can't recommend it without an ethical dilemma nor say what the dilemma is without spoiling the whole thing. What's the best Father Brown mystery? I've been meaning to try…
……共同把《好兆头》献给了他，称他是“一个洞悉一切的人”。他也是《睡魔》里“旅人绿境”（Fiddler's Green）的原型——连手杖剑、圆滚滚的身材、满口悖论和洪亮的笑声都一模一样。我非常喜欢《星期四的男人》（我觉得如果你从没读过的话，它的结局依然震撼有力）、《正统思想》（Orthodoxy）等作品，也是通过他我才第一次接触到分产主义（distributism）。奇怪的是，我总觉得他和普拉切特一样……
…jointly dedicated Good Omens to him, "a man who knew what was going on.". He's also Fiddler's Green, from Sandman -- down to the sword-cane, rotundity, paradoxes, and booming laugh. I greatly enjoy The Man Who Was Thursday (I find that the denouement still works, if you've never read it), Orthodoxy, and some others, and he was my first exposure to distributism. Oddly, I've always felt that he shared with Pratchett the…
这大致就是 G·K·切斯特顿在《星期四的男人》里探讨的问题。我就不剧透了，而且就算我试着去讲恐怕也讲不出它的神韵，但它确实是一个极其引人入胜的故事。
This is approximately the question G.K. Chesterton's "The Man who was Thursday" addresses. I won't spoil it and probably couldn't do it justice if I tried, but it's a compelling story.
……那种认为“非本格”推理就无法传达真理的观点。> 现在转而喜欢 MCU 和《星球大战》电影，甚至去读和写同人文。好吧，我可不这样。比如我很喜欢 G·K·切斯特顿的《星期四的男人》。“星期天”的秘密究竟是不是幻觉？我一点也不在乎。
…idea that "non-authentic" mysteries can't convey truth. > now enjoy MCU and Star Wars movies in their place, even reading and writing fan fiction about it. Well, I don't. I do enjoy, for example, The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton. Is the mystery of Sunday illusory? I care not one whit.
如果允许的话，我可以精简到前四名：* G·K·切斯特顿的《叫星期四的男人》 * 埃斯库罗斯的《俄瑞斯忒亚》 * 埃德蒙·罗斯唐的《大鼻子情圣》 * 罗伯特·乔丹的《世界之眼》
I can narrow it down to a top 4, if that's permissible. * The Man Who Was Thursday, by GK Chesterton * The Oresteia, by Aeschylus * Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand * The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan