Kafkaesque

English Etymology en :af Kafka -esque 1 From en Kafka -esque, after writer Franz Kafka. en Kafkaish. Pronunciation en /ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk/ intrusive R /ˌkæfkəˈɹɛsk/ /ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/ RP en /ˌkɑfkəˈʔɛsk/ /ˌkæfkəˈʔɛsk/ /ˌkɑfkəˈɛsk/ /ˌkæfkəˈɛsk/ GA en en-us-Kafkaesque-adj.ogg US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kafkaesque.wav Southern England en ɛsk 3 en Kaf ka esque Adjective Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. en Kafkaesque bureaucracies en 2001 Jesus (3d ed; Jerusalem: Magnes) David Flusser 250 965-223-978-X In the end, Jesus is not only a Kafkaesque, lonely, holy man, abandoned in his death and despised by his own people, but his teaching is not even considered to be like that of the Jewish Sages. en 2011 Modernity in Crisis: A Dialogue on the Culture of Belonging L. Donskis 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. en September 21, 2011 Louisa Lim The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City w:NPR https://web.archive.org/web/20110921205046/https://www.npr.org/2011/09/21/140633602/the-curious-case-of-the-vanishing-chinese-city https://www.npr.org/2011/09/21/140633602/the-curious-case-of-the-vanishing-chinese-city September 21, 2011 Asia Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.That was the Kafkaesque reality for Chaohu's inhabitants, who went to bed one night and woke up the morning of Aug. 22 to find out that their city no longer existed. For many, their first inkling that something had changed was from the local news. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of looming danger. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka. Derived terms en unKafkaesque Kafkaesqueness Kafkaesquely Related terms en Kafkaian Kafkatrap Kafkian Translations marked by menacing complexity Afrikaans: af kafkaesk, af kafkaagtig Arabic: ar كافايكي Catalan: ca kafkià Chinese: Mandarin: cmn Czech: cs kafkovský Danish: da kafkask Dutch: nl kafkaësk, nl kafkaiaans Estonian: et kafkalik Finnish: fi kafkamainen French: fr kafkaïen Galician: gl kafkiano German: de kafkaesk Greek: el καφκικός Hebrew: he קפקאי kafka'i Hindi: hi काफ़कएस्क Italian: it kafkiano Japanese: ja カフカ的 Kafukateki Korean: ko 카프카적이다 Lithuanian: lt kafkiškas Macedonian: mk кафкијански Norwegian: no kafkask Persian: fa کافکاوار kâfkâvâr, fa کافکاطور kâfkâtor Polish: pl kafkowski Portuguese: pt kafkiano Romanian: ro kafkaian, ro kafkian Russian: ru кафкиа́нский Serbo-Croatian: sh kafkijanski Spanish: es kafkiano Swedish: sv kafkaartad, sv Kafkaartad Swedish: sv kafkaartad See also en Dickensian en Orwellian en Lynchian en eponyms