Kafkaesque
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- Adjective:
- characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger
Word Origin
- Kafkaesque (adj.)
- 1947, resembling situations from the writings of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), German-speaking Jewish novelist born in Prague, Austria-Hungary. The surname is Czech German, literally "jackdaw," imitative.
Example
- 1. He used seemingly long , winding corridors to give the ministry a kafkaesque feel .
- 2. The result is that novices can quickly get lost in wikipedia 's kafkaesque bureaucracy .
- 3. Such comics tend to portray a noirish and kafkaesque version of the modern world .
- 4. But the morning of his december 17 suicide had been a kafkaesque struggle to recover the cart that had been confiscated by the police .
- 5. Meantime , the present situation is kafkaesque , said rhodes . " You have people finally calling for help and getting an answering machine . "