Kafkaesque by Franz Kafka5/26/2023 In real life, people often apply the word Kafkaesque to situations that have similar elements, like navigating the healthcare system or attempting to reach a real, live customer service agent over the phone. In Kafka’s books and stories, notably the novel The Trial, characters are always dealing with bureaucracies in which things are absurdly complicated and even the bureaucrats themselves don’t seem to know the reasons for all the red tape. His day job was in the insurance business. Most of Kafka’s writing wasn’t published until after his death. Other common examples are Shakespearean, meaning “in the style of Shakespeare,” or Orwellian, which refers to literature or a situation resembling the literary work of George Orwell or the dystopia in his novel 1984. It’s just one of the ways we make adjectives out of people’s names. It’s formed from Kafka’s name and the suffix – esque, which indicates a style, resemblance, or distinctive character. The first records of Kafkaesque come from the 1940s.
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