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Kafka

Kafka

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A Czech-born writer who wrote strange, nightmarish stories about feeling alone
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkæfkə/
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  • Thus begins The Trial, one of author Franz Kafka's most well known novels.
  • Franz Kafka
  • Kafka's Metamorphosis
  • Kafka's short stories

They can write use using Faulkner or Hemingway or Kafka or Commune as models.

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Examples

  • These were ghost multiplying media, as Franz Kafka memorably put it.

    Harvard University

  • Many readers consider Kafka a major figure in 20th-century literature due to his unique narrative style.

  • And one person shared a statement from Kafka where he said language is like ice over a lake.

    Rich Roll

  • Are you a fan of Kafka?

    Doctor Jekyll (2023)

  • Alone again in his little room, Kafka writes on into the night.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • As Franz Kafka said, you are free.

  • Lee Oswald must've felt like Josef K in Kafka's The Trial.

    JFK (1991)

  • There is nothing more memorable than the fervor with which Kafka emphasized his failure" (Illuminations 144-45).

    Academic text (1991)

  • Franz Kafka is known for his exploration of themes like alienation and surrealism in his writing.

  • The themes in Kafka's works often leave readers contemplating the complexities of human existence.

Synonyms

Franz Kafka
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6.1

A Czech writer who writes in German about strange situations like a bad dream and lonely people

is the shorter surname form rather than the full personal name

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Kafka is the family name of the writer Franz Kafka and it comes from the Czech word kavka meaning 'jackdaw', a small black bird. Because his stories are strange and often like bad dreams, the name Kafka now makes people think of an odd, unsettling world, which is why we say 'Kafkaesque'.