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Kafka

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Kaf·ka  (käfk, -kä), Franz 1883-1924.
Austrian writer whose stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
Kafka [ˈkæfkə (Czech) ˈkafka]
n
(Biographies / Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) M, Czech, WRITING: novelist) Franz (frants). 1883-1924, Czech novelist writing in German. In his two main novels The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), published posthumously against his wishes, he portrays man's fear, isolation, and bewilderment in a nightmarish dehumanized world
Kafkaesque  [ˌkæfkəˈɛsk] adj
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Noun1.Kafka - Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)
Franz Kafka


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