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What does Kafkaesque mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Kafkaesque? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
  2. Marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger.
  3. In the manner of something written by Franz Kafka.
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The fact is that only by assuming false identities, through bribery and deception, could people survive that Kafkaesque nightmare.
In later writings they modulate into fables, culminating in the brilliant Kafkaesque miniatures of With One Skin Less.
The most grotesque distortions gain currency: Brussels is supposedly home to an immense, Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
With double talk reigning, reality starts to look like a Kafkaesque labyrinth and it applies at all levels of society.
The member for Peterborough resorted to humour to present some Kafkaesque situations that are unlikely to occur in reality.
There, amid a Kafkaesque world of intrigue and betrayal, his medical skills became indispensable to the prison authorities.

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