The article deals with the theme of death in «Les mémoires d’outre-tombe» by F-R. de Chateaubriand in the light of his concept of life, religious beliefs and tradition of autobiographical narrative in French Romantic prose
The article deals with the specific character of the genre of the English writer's autobiography of the turn of the 20th-21st century. by the example of Julian Barnes's autobiography "Nothing to be Afraid".