![]() Karl, author of an exhaustive critical biography on Franz Kafka says, “Kafka is the only 20th-century literary figure whose name has entered the language in a way no other writer has.” But he is against the misuse of the term ‘Kafkaesque’. It is a world devoid of meaning or purpose other than to clear one’s name of the nebulous sense of guilt that is present in the atmosphere. In his texts, society seems to operate in a secretive manner that the individual cannot understand. An individual stands alone and at odds with society. Kafka’s world is one in which God is dead. Kafka’s works mainly expressed the absurdity of modern society, especially the impersonal nature of bureaucracy and capitalism. Franz Kafka And His Worldįranz Kafka was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the twentieth century. Kafkaesque comes from the name of an author Franz Kafka. Basically, the term Kafkaesque is used to describe situations or circumstances that are illogically complex in a surreal, bizarre, or nightmarish way. ![]()
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