Imagine What Exists And Other Recovered Texts

Between 2017 and 2020 I worked in the translation into Spanish of a selection of essays on literature by G. K. Chesterton. At that time, I explored the collections of Chesterton's papers available at the British Library, the G. K. Chesterton Library (then located at Oxford), and the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas, in Austin. As Chesterton's creative output would suggest, the number of unpublished materials (poems, short stories, essays, and even his characteristic doodles) was impressive. The texts here included are transcriptions and reproductions from handwritten essays, notebooks and typescripts encompassing Chesterton's creative life, since his early years as a member of the Junior Debating Club until weeks before his death.