The famous modern writer Anatoly Kim (b. 1939) showed in his work a synthesis of the culture of East and West, Europe and Asia. The highest tension of his philosophical searches and the artistic form adequate to this allowed us to talk about a special, “Kimov’s metaphorical realism.” The novel “Twin” was included in the writer’s cycle of philosophical and fantasy novels, in which he raises the problem of human immortality. According to the author, high thought will captivate the reader, fantasy and phantasmagoria will help to comprehend a completely new “philosophy of immortality.” In the novels “Father-Forest”, “Village of Centaurs”, the writer reflects on what the fear of violent death brings to humanity, in the novel “Gathering Mushrooms to the Music of Bach” - how the immortal principle of man is manifested, and, finally, in the story “The Wall” " and the novel "Twin" - how you can lose or want to destroy your original immortality.