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minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·14 hours agoKafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
minus-squareandrew_bidlawlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 hours agoSpecifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours agoBecause he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
what