num_pages: 496
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
titlecomplete: The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka
genres: History, Literary Criticism, Biography Memoir, Biography, 20th Century, Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 203
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux