Kafka, Franz

[ (kahf-kuh) ]

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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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“Mostly people on a budget use it,” Franz Dobersberger, managing director of a Bangkok travel agency, told The Daily Beast.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370|Lennox Samuels|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Melville may be the most famous example, but Kafka, Kate Chopin, and many others followed a similar trajectory.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The great Mann disappointed her; instead of Kafka and Tolstoy, he wanted to know what she thought of Hemingway.
Still Desperately Seeking Susan Sontag|Allen Barra|September 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The song was awkward for Marxist critics because of its apathetic character,” the scholar Franz Mennemeier noted.
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A century ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary embarked on his fatal journey to Sarajevo.
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In two years he hopes to prove that Franz-Josef Land is or is not a practicable road to the pole.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893|Various
It is to approach by Franz-Josef Land, which may in favorable years be comparatively easily reached.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893|Various
Franz Josias, a hearty man of thirty-five, he too will stand by the Kaiser in these coming storms?
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle
There might a school of art 177 arise, to follow for the future the path which Franz Stuck has struck out.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4)|Richard Muther
Franz Rainer had not always been so stern and hard as he now seemed.
Evenings at Donaldson Manor|Maria J. McIntosh

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