Kafka is a modern myth.  Not only his work, but the distortions in previous biographies make this so. The  book is informed by psychological insights but does no depend on them.

Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka

Biographies & Memoirs

PAWEL, ERNST

Arts & Literature

Publisher

Kafka's biographer resurrects the life story of the founder of one of the most important political movements of the twentieth century, describing how, in his short life, Herzl envisioned Zionism, inspired pride in Jews, and realized his dream

The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl

Historical

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Portraying a poet at the height of his creativity, a biography of Heinrich Heine, a popular German poet of the 1800s who revolutionized the language, shares the work of his last eight years when he was confined to his bed with a mysterious ailment.

The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

"At the age of thirty-five, the fashionable Viennese playwright and journalist Theodor Herzl fantasized about the collective conversion of the Jews in a mass ceremony at the cathedral of St. Stephen. By the time he died, a mere nine years later, he had redefined Jewish identity in terms of a modern secular faith and created a national movement which, within less than half a century, led to the foundation of the Jewish state." 
So begins Ernst Pawel's remarkable study of Herzl. In The Labyrinth of Exile Pawel restores the vital link between the myth of the founding father of Zionism and the human being and demonstrates that the reality of Herzl's life is much more complicated and far more interesting. Legendary and all too human, Herzl remains one of the emblematic figures of modern times.

Community & Culture

NIGHTMARE OF REASON

Vintage

Originally published by Doubleday in 1969, this topical volume delineates the French position on thermonuclear weapons, as well as outlines the theories of deterrence and graduated retaliation that have guided U.S. nuclear policy formation. Also examines the future of the Atlantic Alliance. Political scientists, scientists and nuclear strategists will find this text an invaluable aid in understanding the issues that both unite and divide the Western allies on the issue of nuclear arms.

The Great Debate

History

Military

University Press of America

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Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka

The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl

Nightmare of Reason: Life of Franz Kafka

The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine's Last Years in Paris

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl

NIGHTMARE OF REASON

The Great Debate