Man Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes is one of the brightest and most original prose writers of modern Britain, the author of such international bestsellers as “England, England”, “Flaubert’s Parrot”, “A History of the World in 10/2 Chapters”, “Love and So” further", "Metroland", and many others. Perhaps his main talent is the ability to easily and naturally play with styles and directions in his works. Subtle stylization and caustic irony, sophisticated lyricism and sarcasm bordering on cynicism, aggressive toughness and cheerful mischief - Barnes is capable of all this and much more. In Nothing to Fear, he reflects on the fear of death and what determines the attitude towards death for many - faith. As always, Barnes's reflections cover a broad cultural context, in which stories from the lives of the great but departed - Montaigne and Flaubert, Stendhal and the Goncourt brothers, Shostakovich and Rossini - are interspersed with autobiographical observations.