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Ecco come Gilbert Keith Chesterton descrive il fortunato personaggio letterario uscito dalla sua penna: ''La prima caratteristica di Padre Brown è di non avere caratteristiche; la sua importanza, di non apparire importante; e che la sua qualità cospicua quella di non essere cospicuo, e il suo ordinarissimo esterno vuole essere in contrasto con la sua attenzione e la sua intelligenza insospettate. Non è trasandato, ma piuttosto accurato; non è impacciato, ma molto delicato ed accorto; un irlandese sensibile e di spirito pronto, con la profonda ironia e un po' di quella potenziale capacità d'irritarsi "propria della sua razza". Il primo romanzo con cui viene alla luce questo personaggio, protagonista di famose serie televisive (una per tutte, si ricorda quella con Renato Rascel), è proprio ''L'innocenza di Padre Brown'', che raccoglie i primi dodici racconti, iniziati nel 1911. Dodici gemme in cui, con la scusa dell'avventura poliziesca o mistery, il piccolo prete cattolico ci regala altrettante gemme di saggezza, buon senso, e carità cristiana. In questo terzo episodio, padre Brown si trova in un insolito hotel dove si sta svolgendo uno strano rito...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton è stato uno scrittore, giornalista e aforista britannico. Scrittore estremamente prolifico e versatile, scrisse un centinaio di libri, contributi per altri duecento, centinaia di poesie, un poema epico, cinque drammi, cinque romanzi e circa duecento racconti, tra cui la popolare serie con protagonista la figura di padre Brown. Fu autore inoltre di più di quattromila saggi per giornali. Amò molto il paradosso e la polemica, contribuendo inoltre alla teoria economica del distributismo.



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