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Kafka

[ US /ˈkɑfkə/ ]
NOUN
  1. Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)

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  • The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
  • Our quest however, soon became an odyssey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, PDF scraping and broken links.
  • We can speak of encountering, sometimes in the most unlikely settings, dynamics most succinctly described as "Proustian," "Austenesque" and "Kafkan. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • It is not clear whether Elizabeth is referring here to the deconstructionist theory of the late twentieth century which undermined the assumption that texts have intentional, recuperable meanings — in which case Kafka is a bad example, because his texts were recognized as being radically indeterminate in meaning well before the advent of poststructuralism — or whether she is saying that Kafka was a kind of prophet of deconstruction. Disturbing the Peace
  • Yakovenko notes that Fedotov's main claim to fame, his coauthorship of the Russian media law, came 18 years ago and during that time, many in Russia have undergone "metamorphoses" straight out of Franz Kafka. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • Nothing sticks so fast in the mind as a groundless sense of guilt, Kafka told his friend.
  • DadBoner, who is either a real person or a profound literary construction, the despondent American post-marriage male persona nonpareil, Homer Simpson's Kafkaesque better. Aaron Belz: Literary Twitter: @DadBoner
  • The short story "Ein Landarzt" is a typical work of Franz Kafka , which tells an incredible story, and it is difficult to find out the meaning of this story.
  • The story of his life, at least as he tells it, reads as if Kafka had been crossed with Dostoevsky with a dollop of magical realism thrown in for good measure.
  • While reviewing her writing process and thoughts of Kafka, Arleen shared the literary devices she uses. Book Awards
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