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Uomovivo: In una pensione sulle colline di Londra arriva all'improvviso un vento impetuoso che scuote ogni cosa e porta sulla scena uno strano individuo: Innocent Smith, un gigante scomposto, allegro, rumoroso, eccentrico, forse un po' matto. Anzi, magari Ã¨ un pericoloso criminale, visto che in sua presenza accade di tutto: pistolettate, una violazione di domicilio, rapimenti di innocenti fanciulle, un tumultuoso processo. E magari non Ã¨ neppure da solo quando compie le sue azioni dirompenti. Per dichiarare guerra a tutto ciÃ² che spegne una sana meraviglia verso l'esistenza non basta l'azione isolata e solitaria di un singolo, occorre un'incursione congiunta: un complotto di famiglia. Chi Ã¨ l'uomovivo? O, meglio, chi sono? In a guesthouse in the hills of London, a rushing wind suddenly arrives and shakes everything, including the slightly bored guests who stay there. And he brings a strange individual to the stage: Innocent Smith, a dishevelled, cheerful, noisy, eccentric, perhaps a little crazy giant. Indeed, perhaps he is a dangerous criminal, since everything happens in his presence: gunshots, a trespass, kidnappings of innocent girls, a tumultuous trial. And maybe he is not even alone when he carries out his disruptive actions. To declare war on everything that extinguishes a healthy wonder towards existence, the isolated and solitary action of an individual is not enough, a joint incursion is needed: a family conspiracy. Who is the Living Man? Or, rather, who are they? Chesterton is really at his best in this "philosophical" novel published in 1912, but which keeps intact, after more than a hundred years, his happily subversive charge towards all kinds of conformism and all ideas too obvious to be true.