Iris Murdoch is the most “English” writer of the 20th century, an outstanding master of subtle psychology. Her books were included in the golden fund of world literature and were awarded the most prestigious literary prizes, including the Booker Prize. Each of her novels is a unique, self-contained world that exists according to its own laws, a world that is both logical and bizarre, realistic – and somewhat surreal. The action of the novel “As Good as It Gets” begins with the mysterious suicide of a ministerial official in his office. An official investigation, conducted with all care by a ministerial lawyer, is intertwined with multi-figured love conflicts, and everything ends in the most unexpected way...