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- 1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world: "a Kafkaesque bureaucratic office"
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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers.... Wikipedia