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    Franz Kafka (redirect from Kafkaesque)
    novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted...
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  • "Kafkaesque" is the ninth episode of the third season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the 29th overall episode of the series...
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  • which was a decrease from the 1.62 million of the previous episode, "Kafkaesque". It has the second-lowest number of viewers on its original broadcast...
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  • starring Crispin Glover. Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel he has slept in. His...
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  • deals with the lives of two men before and after being thrown into a kafkaesque scenario in which they get tortured for confession. Vetrimaaran later...
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    and wrote the episode "Caballo sin Nombre" and co-wrote the episode "Kafkaesque" with fellow producer George Mastras. Gould was promoted again to supervising...
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    often considered predominantly science-fiction, the show's paranormal and Kafkaesque events leaned the show much closer to fantasy and horror (there are about...
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    absurd hero. Franz Kafka repeatedly referred to Sisyphus as a bachelor; Kafkaesque for him were those qualities that brought out the Sisyphus-like qualities...
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  • bills" in Texas – which were criticised as being transphobic – were "a Kafkaesque state intrusion". The newspaper also featured an article written by Maria...
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  • ← Previous "One Minute" Next → "Kafkaesque"...
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  • rooms. Cube gained notoriety and a cult following for its surreal and Kafkaesque setting in industrial, cube-shaped rooms. It received generally positive...
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  • George Orwell, referring to his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four) and "Kafkaesque" (from Franz Kafka). Names of famous characters are another source of...
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    they are normally capitalized, for example Victorian, Shakespearean, and Kafkaesque. However, some eponymous adjectives and noun adjuncts are nowadays entered...
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    Retrieved December 28, 2013. Peterson, Andrea (December 27, 2013). "The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today's NSA ruling". The Washington Post. Retrieved December...
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  • the mould of Danger Man, McGoohan's previous series, its surreal and Kafkaesque setting and reflection of concerns of the 1960s counterculture have had...
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    blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective 'Kafkaesque'". Samuel Beckett was also an early absurdist; an Irish novelist, playwright...
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  • George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and it has been called "Kafkaesque" as well as absurdist. Sarah Street's British National Cinema (1997) describes...
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  • ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-03-16. Kafkaesque (2014-01-24). "Chanel Baron von Dincklage Archives". Kafkaesque. Retrieved 2024-03-16. Cantarero, Joan...
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    post-apocalyptic fiction Biopunk Digital dystopia Dissident Inner emigration Kafkaesque List of dystopian comics List of dystopian films List of dystopian literature...
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  • written in a style similar to that of Kafka, and thus it is labeled "kafkaesque." The novel's strange imagery and nonlinear writing structure invoke the...
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    (Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev), again, bringing a new round of Kafkaesque charges." In 2010, it was revealed that the Russian government placed...
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    experimented in various modes, from the political satire Our Gang (1971) to the Kafkaesque The Breast (1972). By the end of the decade Roth had created his alter...
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  • Gilligan, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, and Gennifer Hutchison "Kafkaesque" by Vince Gilligan, Betsy Brandt, George Mastras, and Michael Slovis "Fly"...
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    subjected to a nightmare experience of lost paperwork, misapplied fees and Kafkaesque phone calls with clueless customer service representatives as they strived...
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    Supplement, 13 October 1995, via textkritik.de[dead link] Scholars squabble in Kafkaesque drama, David Harrison, The Observer, 17 May 1998, p. 23, via textkritik...
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    attempt to undermine the injunction. The UK press was then left in the Kafkaesque position where neither the Minton report, nor the injunction against it...
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    that she had been Evans's lover. "I had 10 years of a horrific life, Kafkaesque. There were nights I cried myself to sleep." Robert Evans, The New York...
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    Colin Bucksey Gennifer Hutchison May 9, 2010 (2010-05-09) 1.78 29 9 "Kafkaesque" Michael Slovis Peter Gould & George Mastras May 16, 2010 (2010-05-16)...
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  • Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy". Many critics have noted The Tenant's strong Kafkaesque theme, typified by an atmosphere that is absurdly over-burdened with anxiety...
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  • workplace location is Silicon Valley. Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake, where office politics preclude...
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