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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Because he didn't cry at his mother's funeral, right?

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    Isn't that the plot of that book? Maybe I'm thinking of another one.

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