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minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 年前Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 年前Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 年前Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Isn’t that the plot of that book? Maybe I’m thinking of another one.
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前It was The Stranger by Camus, whoops.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前Ha, never read it. I count it as a recomendation.
Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
Because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
what
Isn’t that the plot of that book? Maybe I’m thinking of another one.
You do, probably.
It was The Stranger by Camus, whoops.
Ha, never read it. I count it as a recomendation.