kafkaesque

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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.

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  1. Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no reasonable solution.

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  1. characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger
  2. relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings

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  • If you enjoyed this post, please consider to made a kafkaesque post to my blog today to see if it still worked: —  Chad Dickerson
  • The drug companies, the medical profession, and kafkaesque political despots all have a different world view and they are not likely to allow any competition if they can help it. —  Brain Blogger
  • 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. —  Brit Lit Blogs
  • "It's a kafkaesque legal procedure." —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
  • "France is definitely alone in the world with its kafkaesque administrative machinery, an expensive mechanism for arbitrary punishment," says meeting fierce resistance in its attempts to impose a virtually identical law on its citizens. —  p2pnet news
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