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Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.

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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.

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- feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
  
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  - andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    what
    
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    feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Isn’t that the plot of that book? Maybe I’m thinking of another one.
    
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