Confession of an Englishman, a lover of opium: Queens de

The book presents the best examples of the vast creative heritage of the English prose writer of the era of romanticism Thomas de Queens, in which the various faces of his literary talent were reflected.
Opening volume “Confession of an Englishman, a lover of opium” is the main work of the writer, his philosophical autobiography and at the same time visionary phantasmagoria, who left a remarkable mark in the history of European culture and found an interested response in Russian literature of the XIX century. Drawn in Confession … “a tragic, piercing emotional self-portrait is supplemented by new strokes in later memoirs-essential narratives” Suspiria de Profundis “and” English postal carriage “, which the Russian reader will first meet in their entirety. The book also includes the literary and philosophical essay “On the knock on the gate of Shakespeare” and the parody of the historical and criminological “study” “On the murder as one of the elegant arts”, the witty, paradoxical-irony plot of which …

Author
De Queens Thomas
Editor
Nazarova E.
Translator
Sukharev S.
Publisher
Eksmo, 2011
Series
Library of World Literature