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Kafka, Franz
- An Austrian author of the early twentieth century. His works, written in German, have a surreal, dreamlike quality; they frequently concern characters who are lonely, tormented, and victimized and who represent the frustrations of modern life. He is the author of “The Metamorphosis” and The Trial .
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A “kafkaesque” situation is both bizarre and frustrating.
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By those standards, Franz Kafka is an unscrupulous plagiarist as is Aaron Copland and every jazz great.
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His presentation unfolded as if it had been conjured by the dark fantasy of Franz Kafka.
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