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  • Sarah Offline
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    Comes from the author Franz [Kafka], and refers to the style with which he wrote his books (which in his dying wish asked for to be burned).
    Basically it describes a nightmarish situation which most people can somehow relate to, although strongly surreal. With an ethereal, evil, omnipotent power floating just beyond the senses.

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      Describing something that is horribly complicated for no reason, usually in reference to bureaucracy. Named after the early 20th century writer Franz Kafka, best known for The Trial and Metamorphosis.

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        Named after the author Franz [Kafka], typically used to describe anything that makes no sense, has no colours and has no points of reference.

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          adjective

          Something people say to sound really smart.

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            From the Czech/German author of the early [1900]’s, the word describes a situation where the individual is sane but struggles against an illogical and insane [bureaucracy] or authority. See his unfinished novel ‘[The Castle]’. Essentially all of us now that Brexit has been setting in for the last 2 years.

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              extremely unpleasant, frightening, and confusing, and similar to situations described in the novels of Franz Kafka:

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                Characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafkas fictional world.

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