Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2016 9) 1181-1190 ~ ~ ~ УДК 82.09 Conceptualization of the Fear of Non-Being in the Book About War “My Lieutenant” by Daniil Granin (on Actualization of Universal Binary Oppositions) Maya M. Polekhina* Odintsovo Branch of MGIMO University 3 Novo-Sportivnaya, Odintsovo, 143005, Russia Received 26.01.2016, received in revised form 25.02.2016, accepted 12.04.2016 The concept of war represented in the composition of D. Granin’s book, introduces a number of universal binary oppositions. <...> The war is considered as a monstrous crime against humanity destroying human in a human being. <...> The concept of war is associated in Granin’s book with the comprehension of some existential problems. <...> The origin of the fear of non-being is not in the transient nature of everything, but in the awareness of the inevitability of his own death, understanding his own mortality, his eschatology. <...> It changes the perception of the world, shows the fragility of human life, makes one feel and appreciate every moment, and at the same time devalues life as an act of existence. <...> The fear of death at war becomes all-consuming, raising the questions of human behaviour in the face of death. <...> Every time a human being faces death, he behaves in a different way, but according to Granin, the fear of non-being defi nes human identity and his willingness to meet eternity. <...> Taking away a human life like an arbiter is a point of no return to the inner self. <...> Those who have experienced the fear of non-being, those who have been on the edge of life and death, cannot return to their former inner world, they become aliens in it, doomed for eternal wandering in another reality. <...> According to Granin, overcoming the fear of non-being leads to the awareness of the world’s and human eternity, to the faith in the creation of the world, to the eternal life and God’s infi nite mercy. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: illusio2008@yandex.ru # 1181 # has noted that “with time the theme of war has not exhausted and simplifi ed, and the very word ‘war’ has not disappeared from the life and Maya M. Polekhina. <...> Conceptualization of the Fear of Non-Being in the Book About War “My Lieutenant”… consciousness of people” (Astafi ev, 1986, 5). <...> The tragic has become a natural part <...>