How four of Europe\'s most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.
In this brilliant combination of biography and lucid exposition, their apocal.
Instead, they saw themselves both as the end products of a dying civilization and as prophets of the coming chaos of the twentieth century.
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology, philosophy, or belles lettres.
How four of Europe\'s most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind