"A man who has always seen paradoxes around him" - this is how you can describe the influential writer and public figure Gilbert Keith Chesterton. In the book "Gilbert Keith Chesterton" the rich inner world of this outstanding author is presented in writing. Author Patrick Braybrook helps contemporaries imagine what it was like to live with Chesterton, to answer the question of what makes him so unique in world literature. The book is an important source for those interested in the life and work of this outstanding intellectual of the 20th century.