Kafka
Franz [frahnts], /frɑnts/, 1883–1924, Austrian novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague.
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Daboll and Kafka then called three more runs, picking up another first down along the way.
The New York Giants’ Perfect Start Is Unexpected. So Is Their Play-Calling. | Josh Hermsmeyer | September 22, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightThey are trapped in a Kafka-esque system working against them.
Inside Russia’s ‘Kafka-esque’ Mass Kidnapping Scheme | Allison Quinn | August 5, 2022 | The Daily BeastWilliams’s protagonist, a teenage girl named Khristen, is the inverted manifestation of Kafka’s hunter.
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Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack | Walter Thompson | June 4, 2021 | TechCrunchThe activity on the coliseum floor has a Kafka-meets-Willy Wonka vibe.
Melville may be the most famous example, but Kafka, Kate Chopin, and many others followed a similar trajectory.
The great Mann disappointed her; instead of Kafka and Tolstoy, he wanted to know what she thought of Hemingway.
The last one was Kafka-esque, it was other planet, it was just bizarre.
Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow’s Calls to Its Ukraine Spies | Josh Rogin, Eli Lake | April 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe defendants watched from within a steel-mesh cage in what often seemed a grim scene from Kafka or the theater of the absurd.
Al Jazeera Journalists Are On Trial in Egypt for Doing Their Jobs | Jesse Rosenfeld | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI knew about him a little before I went to graduate school, and there I really immersed myself in his stories, and in Kafka.
There are sketches for the third movement in the Kafka volume, but they afford no help in fixing a date.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock ThayerIsrael Kafka stood still, gazing down upon the woman he loved, and drawing his breath hard between his parted lips.
The Witch of Prague | F. Marion CrawfordKafka faced her resolutely, his eyes on fire, the rich colour mantling in his cheeks.
The Witch of Prague | F. Marion CrawfordA moment earlier it would have wounded Israel Kafka to the quick and brought the hot, angry blood to his face.
The Witch of Prague | F. Marion CrawfordHalf an hour later Unorna returned to her place among the flowers, but Israel Kafka was gone.
The Witch of Prague | F. Marion Crawford
British Dictionary definitions for Kafka
/ (ˈkæfkə, Czech ˈkafka) /
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
Derived forms of Kafka
- Kafkaesque (ˌkæfkəˈɛsk), adjective
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