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Kafkaesque: an Author’s Legacy in One Word

Kafkaesque: an Author’s Legacy in One Word

It would be difficult to find a more suitable word to characterize modern people’s cosmic predicament than “Kafkaesque”. The etymology of the word isn’t hard to decipher, which is untrue of the worlds created by the man immortalized by the adjective. Like many great artists, Kafka’s work was largely undiscovered until after his death.