No Time

6 hrs. 9 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexey Brusnitsyn

Narrator Sergey Chonishvili

Description

All normal people fear death: materialists are frightened by non-existence, idealists by the lack of a reliable guarantee of getting into heaven. For some, fear of death even gets in the way of living… As Epicurus taught: “Don’t fear death: while you’re alive, it’s not there; when it comes, you won’t be.” The main character of the story isn’t one of those simpletons who can be comforted by such sophistry, but he’s not a panic-stricken person either. However, he’s reached an age when closeness to death makes you think about what you’ve achieved in life—and what you’ll leave behind. He isn’t the first to realize that, in the grand scheme of things, there’s basically nothing… This can upset anyone—but events unfold that make him look anew at both his short life and the thousand-year history of humanity. Contains profanity.