jballs@sh.itjust.works to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoPerformative Perp Walksh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square183linkfedilinkarrow-up11.97K
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minus-squaredarthelmet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·5 months agoKafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoSpecifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.
Kafka wrote stories about confusing, impersonal bureaucracies. So people will describe something as Kafkaesque to convey that sense of being lost in a system.
Specifically in The Trial dude was judged and persecuted by the state without anyone even explaining to him what he did.