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Kafkaesque - What does it mean?

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kafkaesque

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
    • Kafkaesque bureaucracies
  • Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
  • In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.

    • Related terms

    * Kafkaian * Kafkian

    See also

    *Dickensian *Orwellian

    Not English

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