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Title	:	Nothing to Be Frightened of
Author	:	Julian Barnes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 244 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2009 by Vintage (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Philosophy. Biography. Death. Writing. Essays

Nothing to Be Frightened of

Julian Barnes

Paperback | Pages: 244 pages

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A memoir on mortality as only Julian Barnes can write it, one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the world,” how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty and an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for, against, and with God, and at his own bloodline, which has become, following his parents’ death, another realm of mystery.

Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.

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Original Title:	Nothing to Be Frightened Of
ISBN:	0307389987 (ISBN13: 9780307389985)
Edition Language:	English

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For years I avoided Barnes: I blame Martin Amis and Ian McEwan for reaching a point in their career where they were just marking time, and my stupidity for lumping Barnes in with them. Plus, the subject matter: it's fair to assume that maybe this is a gap-filler, a publisher suggestion for an idea-impoverished author etc.Happily, this is Barnes' best book, of those things of his I finally got round to. He is the best of that generation of English writers, I think. Stylistically he is peerless.

I dont believe in God, but I miss Him. Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened ofMy first thought when I read this articulate and searching meditation on death was the incredible courage and determination of Julian Barnes in confronting his fear of mortality. It took him two years from 2005 to 2007 to consolidate his thoughts and pen his own tortuous wrangling with being an agnostic and dealing with a daily preoccupation with his fear of death. It is a tough subject matter to dwell upon but

Wise, humorous, moving reflections on life, death, memory and families. I especially enjoyed the conversations Barnes has with his philosopher brother as each pushes the other into considering/reconsidering these mighty questions and then focusing on the family. 'it's what she would have wanted', for instance. Something that relatives of a dead woman or man say as they plan details of a funeral, dispose of household items or build patterns of family memories. But how do we know what anyone

A meditation on death by an author who has lost parents, siblings, friends and a spouse while still in his active literary years. Death is analysed from every angle and in excruciating detail. We learn about the deaths of famous writers as well: Stendhal, Maugham, Flaubertwith the caveat that we never know when death will occur and what state of readiness we will be in when it comes. Atheists seem to have a greater fear of death, and a greater pre-occupation with it, for there is nothing else to

"I don't believe in God, but I miss Him."If you're a Julian Barnes fan, an opening line like that is one of the reasons you read him. This book is funny, challenging, enlightening, frustrating and (despite its title) frightening. But tackling a subject as death needs doses of all those things, and Barnes pulls it off. For those friends that have never read Barnes, I don't recommend this as your first read. If you come to this book by way of any of his other non-fiction, or his tremendous

Le Réveil Mortel: Sensing the EndI have always found the leap from metaphysical mystery to Christian religious belief by apologists like C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton to be a rhetorical sleight of hand. It is illogical and vaguely insulting. The recognition that human language, perception, and thought dont quite get to reality is as old as philosophy. But the idea that this inadequacy or defect or disability offers a rationale for the truth, or even the relevance, of Christian doctrine appears

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