Father Brown, the detective from the series of short stories by G.K. Chesterton, appears to be a combination of impossible and contradictory features. The author designed him as paradoxical protagonist so as to present the incompatibility of psychological truths and moral laws. Actually, Father Brown expresses the indelible paradoxical nature of the plots of the crime story, which as literary genre does not assume any sort of an attitude to crime as such.
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