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“As well as Beckett, Kafka seems never far - Brick's situation pretty well fits popular understandings of the word kafkaesque (the second time I've (mis) used it this week) - and the echo in the name of Brill's granddaughter, Katya, is hardly accidental.”
“The ruling has the art world's appropriators reeling—one blogger called the ruling "kafkaesque"—as the rarefied, anything-goes realm of conceptual art runs up against the hard-nosed realities of intellectual-property rights.”
The Wall Street Journal: When Appropriation Masquerades as Reconceptualized Art
“Listening to the bank explain how it missed even the simplest safeguards (having a signature card for example) was kafkaesque.”
Ranking Corporate America on Identity Theft - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“This is kafkaesque and people wonder why they can't stand dems.”
““France is definitely alone in the world with its kafkaesque administrative machinery, an expensive mechanism for arbitrary punishment,” said La Quadrature du Net.”
“Something like that kafkaesque enough for you Jim?”
“Let's talk about ways to eliminate conflict, so this ridiculous kafkaesque environment ends some day.”
“I have a couple of family members with mental health issues and we've endured this sort of kafkaesque and insulting and patronizing situation more times than I care to remember.”
“I repeat, kafkaesque was the right term for the U.S. these days.”
“It’s a kafkaesque exercise at times, and the recent Iran mess has reminded me yet again, that to a foreigner, the US really is “through the looking glass”.”
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chained_bear Other possible adjectives. Aug 26, 2008
seanahan Kafka? Who's Kafka? TELL ME! Aug 12, 2008
yarb The article refers to Kafka as "the literary Kafkaesque genius". Was it written by Weirdnet? Aug 11, 2008
tankexmortis Interesting article, whichbe. I gotta wonder what idiot started the idea of Kafka's supposed "saintly image" - did they ever actually read his work? Aug 11, 2008
whichbe Franz Kafka’s porn brought out of the closet Aug 11, 2008