Убийство как одно из изящных искусств

Angliĭskiĭ pisatelʹ, uchenyĭ, avtor znamenitoĭ "Ispovedi anglichanina, upotrebli͡avshego opium" Tomas de Kvinsi rasskazyvaet ob ubiĭstve s tochki zrenii͡a ėsteticheskikh kategoriĭ. Ispolnennoe chernogo i͡umora povestvovanie predstavli͡aet soboĭ nauchnyĭ doklad o naibolee i͡arkikh i ėkstravagantnykh ubiĭstvakh proshlogo. Pugai͡ushchai͡a osvedomlennostʹ professora o nashumevshikh prestuplenii͡akh ėpokhi navodit na mysli o tom, chto ėto ne nauchnyĭ doklad, a ispovedʹ ubiĭt͡sy. Tak li ėto na samom dele ili, vozmozhno, tak proi͡avli͡aetsi͡a pisatelʹskiĭ talant avtora, vdokhnovivshego Charlʹza Dikkensa na luchshie ego romany? Otvetitʹ na ėtot vopros smozhet sam chitatelʹ, oznakomivshisʹ s knigoĭ.

English writer, scientist, author of the famous "Confessions of an Englishman who used opium" Thomas de Quincey tells about the murder from the point of view of aesthetic categories. The narrative, full of black humor, is a scientific report on the most vivid and extravagant murders of the past. The professor's frightening awareness of the sensational crimes of the era suggests that this is not a scientific report, but a confession of a murderer. Is this really the case, or perhaps this is how the writer's talent of the author who inspired Charles Dickens to his best novels manifests itself? The reader himself will be able to answer this question after reading the book.