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What does it mean when people say something is Kafke-esque? Does
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What does it mean when people say something is Kafke-esque? Does it just mean dark in nature?
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i always thought it meant strangely impenetrable and impossibly complex like the bureaucratic system in "The trial"
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I don't know what people mean when they say it because most people who say it don't know what it means
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Just a term people use to appear cultured.
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>>7972630
It's a meaningless term to brag about your knowledge of Kafka and say that a piece reminded you of his work
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its lmao absurd
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It's when something surreal, dream-like happens to you and you see no end to it. It cannot be helped.
Like an annoying fly flying around; it still lives, even though so many times it seemed like you have killed it.

desu
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>>7972653
lmao this pretty much lmao.
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>>7972635
fpbp
this is its real definition
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>>7972635
this

the story-within-a-story called "before the law" is the best example desu
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