“Nothing to be Frightened of”

On September 2, 2008, Julian Barnes book Nothing to be Frightened of was released. 

This interesting work provides the author’s view of the upcoming certainty of death.  As described on the author’s website:

‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that ‘this is not my autobiography’, the result is like a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.

For a review of this book in which the writer concludes, “It is a beautiful and funny book, still booming in my head,” see Garrison Keillor, Dying of the Light, NY Times, Oct. 5, 2008.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this review to my attention.