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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.
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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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