Kafka

American  

[kahf-kah, -kuh] / ˈkɑf kɑ, -kə /

noun

1. Franz 1883–1924, Austrian novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague.

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Kafka British  

/ ˈkæfkə, ˌkæfkəˈɛsk, ˈkafka /

noun

1. 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

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Other Word Forms

• Kafkaesque adjective

Example Sentences

Along with Confluent and Amazon Web Services, IBM is one of the largest providers of managed Apache Kafka, a open-source distributed streaming system that processes data.

From Barron's

“I saw it live,” Kafka told reporters after the game.

From Los Angeles Times

Late in that same game, Giants interim coach Mike Kafka made a bold move that was quickly second-guessed.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s the first major decision made by interim coach Mike Kafka since the Giants’ firing of coach Brian Daboll on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times

Krasznahorkai is "a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess," the Academy said.

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