Kafkaesque

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kafkaesque \Kafkaesque\ prop. a. [fr. Franz Kafka, novelist;
     especially from his novels such as "The Trial".]
     Frightening, threating, and bewildering in a vague and
     unexplicable way; -- of situations or regulations. Often used
     to describe illogical bureaucratic entanglements with no
     reasonable solution.


     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Kafkaesque
       adj 1: relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings
       2: characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending
          danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless
          interrogations"