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Kafkaesque

Evoking the nightmarish atmosphere depicted in the fiction of the novelist Franz Kafka. In Der Prozess/The Trial (1925) and Der Schloss/The Castle (1926), the protagonist experiences a mounting sense of powerlessness and anxiety in the face of a menacing and omniscient bureaucracy.



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