![]() ![]() Kafkaesque is also surreal and nightmarish.īut it’s not the forced surreality or nightmarishness of a horror story this is drawn out slowly and evolves, stage by stage, from complexity rather than from terror. ![]() This is much better, and I don’t think I could improve upon it.Ĭomplex is probably the best starting point.īut ‘illogical’ does injustice to Kafka because throughout his illogicality you’ll find the most beautiful logic at every step. Kafkaesque is used to describe situations that are disorientingly and illogically complex in a surreal or nightmarish way. That doesn’t tell you much, beyond the fact that it’s derived from Kafka’s fiction, and it’s oppressive or nightmarish. Kafkaesque: ‘characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka’s fictional world’. Google the word ‘Kafkaesque’ to see what it means. How many people have a whole new adjective created in their name?Īnd for many of those who do, it’s often just a way of expressing old ideas with a new word.īut you can’t say that about Franz Kafka. ![]()
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