Kafkaesque

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English

Etymology

From Kafka +‎ -esque, after writer Franz Kafka.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌkɑfkəˈɛsk/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/, (intrusive R) /ˌkæfkəˈɹɛsk/

Adjective

Kafkaesque (comparative more Kafkaesque, superlative most Kafkaesque)

  1. Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
    • 2011, L. Donskis, Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging:
      The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.
    Kafkaesque bureaucracies
  2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
  3. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.

Translations

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See also

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