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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•1 month agoKafka 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_bidlawlinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 month agoSpecifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoBecause he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral, right?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoIsn’t that the plot of that book? Maybe I’m thinking of another one.
minus-squareandrew_bidlawlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoHa, 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.