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	Kafkaesque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term, which is quite fluid in definition, has also been described as "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies" [1] and "marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport.
		The adjective refers to anything suggestive of Kafka, especially his nightmarish type of narration, in which characters lack a clear course of action, the ability to see beyond immediate events, and the possibility of escape.
		In one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, when Reese is cornered by a brother of a kid in Malcolm's "smart school", the kid remarks "Kafkaesque, isn't it?"--remarking on the difficulty of the situation for Reece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kafkaesque (600 words)

	Kafkaesque - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kafkaesque is an adjective which is used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novel The Trial and his novella The Metamorphosis.
		In one episode of "Malcolm in the Middle", when Reece is cornered by a brother of a kid in Malcolm's "smart school", the kid remarks "Kafkaesque, isn't it?"--remarking on the difficulty of the situation for Reece.
		This is one of a whole series of adjectives based on authors' names, such as Brechtian, Joycean, Orwellian, Pinteresque, and Machiavellian.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kafkaesque (385 words)

	kafkaesque situations information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I have consequently found myself in many Kafkaesque situations in which I am accused of completely ungrounded allegations and have faced the deliberate..
		After several Kafkaesque situations, he is kicked by a horse and later dies.
		Here, Borremans's subjects are placed in Kafkaesque situations, where individuals are unimportant, and engage in herd-like activities, as if they are..
	www.manorchat.com /k/kafkaesque_situations.html (165 words)

	MET's Past Productions: The Castle - About The Script (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A dictionary might define “Kafkaesque” as “any work marked by surreal logic of menacing proportions.” But any definition misses the details that make Kafka's work so rewarding.
		These heroes are the most important characteristic of the Kafkaesque, though they are often left out of the definition.
		The Castle is one of the great tragedies of the 20th century, not because it accepts that the unseen forces of the Kafkaesque will defeat us (though they certainly will), but because it suggests that we will continue to struggle.
	www.met.com /castle/kafkaesque.html (600 words)

	Kafkaesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Like the authority in The Trial, the Kafkaesque nightmare is that our government seems to be displaying...
		Kafkaesque is an adjective which is used to describe concepts, situations and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novel The Trial and his short story The Metamorphosis.
		Kafkaesque Surface & Mad Man In The Circus / A & S. Kafkaesque Surface's 'convenient' adjectives...
	berkoffsteven.foulsteven.com /kafkaesque (699 words)

	Legal Spectator: Kafkaesque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To then nullify that effort seven years later because one report refers to other problems, which problems admittedly have been discussed at length in other reports available to the public, borders on the Kafkaesque.
		Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 98 S. Ct. 1197, 435 U.S. Kafkaesque is the enforcement of rules of procedure to the point of irrationality.
		Jacob A. Stein is a senior partner with Stein, Mitchell and Mezines LLP.
	www.dcbar.org /for_lawyers/washington_lawyer/january_2001/spectator.cfm (839 words)

	Physician endures 'Kafkaesque' experience after leaving kids in car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BOSTON (AP) - Every parent has probably considered it at least once: making that quick dash into the store while the kids are comfortably asleep in their car seats.
		Soon the Massachusetts Department of Social Services sent her a letter saying there was enough evidence to support a child neglect citation.
		On Tuesday, the same day The Boston Globe was finishing a report on the case, Sweitzer learned the social services agency was reversing its finding and expunging the allegation from her record.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/032797/physicia.htm (375 words)

	Kafkaesque nightmares - On Line Opinion - 17/2/2006
		But if “Orwellian” is the most overused literary pejorative in politics, “Kafkaesque” would have to be one of its closest rivals - and in the current political climate, Kafka’s surreal imaginings may turn out to have as much relevance for us as Orwell’s jackboot dystopia.
		Although unconnected, they are nevertheless representative of a growing trend of fear, secrecy and unaccountability - all the essential ingredients of a Kafka nightmare.
		But it is still possible to see in his works an allegory of the vitiating effects of gratuitous secrecy, and the relationship between the abuse of power and the abuse of reason.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4165 (850 words)

	Book Report on This essay analizes how the movie "Kafka" is Kafkaesque. That is to say how the movie conveys the theme ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		That is to say how the movie conveys the theme that Kafka puts out in his works, esp. in The Metamorphosis.
		For something to be Kafkaesque it must first of all have a sense of obscurity and/or surrealism.
		Another defining aspect of something that is Kafkaesque is its weariness of routine, or the general humdrum of life.
	www.newessay.com /database/This_essay_analizes_how_the_mo-138202.html (301 words)

	UK terror suspects being held in 'Kafkaesque world'
		The Government's record on human rights will be condemned by Amnesty International tomorrow in a searing indictment of the anti-terror laws rushed in by Tony Blair.
		Amnesty will claim that terrorist suspects find themselves "effectively persecuted" and held for years in "a Kafkaesque world" on the basis of secret accusations.
		After a full-scale inquiry, Amnesty will conclude that conditions for some suspects held at the top security Belmarsh prison, in south-east London, amount to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment".
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/february2006/230206Kafkaesque.htm (1014 words)

	Franz Kafka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His most famous pieces of writing include his short story Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) and his unfinished novel Das Schloß (The Castle).
		The adjective "kafkaesque" has come into common use to denote mundane yet absurd and surreal circumstances of the kind commonly found in Kafka's work.
		Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Kafka (3045 words)

	Lebanese recover from Kafkaesque trip to Israel - Boston.com
		Wellwishers gathered in Hassan Nasrallah's garden above the ancient Lebanese town of Baalbek on Friday, delighted to see him and four relatives back from a Kafkaesque three-week adventure in Israeli detention.
		Nasrallah, a modest shopkeeper who happens to have the same name as the leader of the Lebanese guerrilla movement Hizbollah, shook hands with his visitors and seated them under the trees as the family prepared a feast of grilled lamb.
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	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/08/25/lebanese_recover_from_kafkaesque_trip_to_israel (611 words)

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	Expert About ka:Kafkaesque
		7 i: Kafkaesque adj 1: relating to or in the manner of Franz Kafka or his writings syn: Kafkaesque 2: characterized by surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger; "the kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations".
		this last month may have been the most kafkaesque of my life so far and i've been prompted to pick up a copy of "the trial".
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	Term Paper on This essay analizes how the movie "Kafka" is Kafkaesque. That is to say how the movie conveys the theme ...
		Term Paper on This essay analizes how the movie "Kafka" is Kafkaesque.
		One can plainly see that this is true by reading any of his work, in particular "The Metamorphosis." Also part of the definition of Kafkaesque are: comic absurdity, weariness of routine or meeting peoples expectations alienation, disconnectedness and futility.
		The idea that a normal man could be transformed into this beast of a man that will do anything, even commit murder, for a small vial of what we can only assume is drugs is ludicrous.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/This_essay_analizes_how_the_mo-138202.html (318 words)

	Refuser Solidarity Network
		Israelis Detain Hundreds Without Trial: Kafkaesque Nightmare Awaits Arrested Palestinians -- by Chris McGreal in Deheisheh, the Guardian [UK], January 24, 2003.
		A year ago, the figure stood at 36.
		Yael Stein, research director of the B'Tselem human rights group in Israel, says that administrative detention is a Kafkaesque nightmare.
	www.refusersolidarity.net /default.asp?content_new=resources&action=resourceDetail&resourceId=209&title=Information (202 words)

	Telstra challenges watchdog's 'Kafkaesque' pricing decision - Business
		Describing the decision as "positively Kafkaesque", Telstra has lodged an appeal with the Australian Competition Tribunal after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission threw out last month an undertaking in which the telecom sought the right to charge rivals $30 a month.
		Analysts have said the chance of a successful appeal is slim, although they cannot see any downside in Telstra mounting a challenge.
		Last month the ACCC also issued interim determinations to set a wholesale price of $17.70 per line a month on access to up to 70 per cent of Telstra's phone lines, down from the$22 the company had previously factored into its financials.
	www.smh.com.au /news/business/telstra-challenges-watchdogs-kafkaesque-pricing-decision/2006/09/15/1157827156485.html (540 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Kafkaesque" is a half-hour documentary Sven Berkemeier and I co-produced about Egon Kafka, collector of vintage transit busses, urban philosopher, and distant cousin of legendary existentialist Franz Kafka.
		In September, 2002, we had the pleasure of visiting three festivals in the Los Angeles area, all of which featured Kafkaesque.
		Doctober, a festival conducted by the International Documentary Association, presented our film on a pristine 35mm print, the only festival to have the opportunity to do so.
	home.earthlink.net /~ned/kafka.html (500 words)

	LottaLiving.com :: View topic - Around The World With "Kafkaesque"
		"Kafkaesque," the documentary film by Sven Berkemeier and Rich Samuels, hits three film festivals in a row - from Winslow, Arizona to Beirut, Lebanon back to Globalfest, California.
		"Kafkaesque" is a wild, often outrageous, ride through the mind of eccentric Egon Kafka, collector of vintage buses and classical automobiles in Southern California.
		The self-proclaimed "transportagonist" faces a constant struggle to keep his dream alive - an overwhelming quest, which leads him to consider his true connection to cousin Franz, the famed existentialist writer of the 20th century.
	www.lottaliving.com /bb/viewtopic.php?t=101 (277 words)

	Sentencing Law and Policy: A Kafkaesque federal sentencing story
		3, 2004) (mentioned here), and the only fitting adjective for the case is Kafkaesque.
		Though the history of the case, not to mention the circuit court's interpretation of a federal sentencing statute, has too many twists and turns to recount here, Pabon-Cruz highlights substantively and procedurally how bewildering federal sentencing can be.
		On its face, the decision seems to say that the judge can impose a fine or a ten-year sentence, but nothing in between.
	sentencing.typepad.com /sentencing_law_and_policy/2004/12/a_kafkaesque_fe.html (459 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rights groups detail 'Kafkaesque' U.S. detentions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Federal law allows the government to temporarily detain people who are suspected of having knowledge of a crime to ensure they testify.
		But the report accuses the government of operating in "a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention" for many people who were never linked to terrorism.
		Of the 70 men identified in the report, 42 were released without any charges filed.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-06-26-detentions_x.htm (512 words)

	The Corpse: Short story dealing with Alienation and Kafkaesque - CheatHouse.com
		The Corpse is a short story by Joshua Gonzalez aka NeonFx and it deals one of the the most important aspects of the Kafkaesque: Alienation.
		This short story successfully demonstrated a main aspect of the Kafkaesque: Alienation.
		I do believe that had I had more time, the story would of proved longer and would of included a lot more imagery than its current state.
	www.cheathouse.com /essay/essay_view.php?p_essay_id=30342 (383 words)

	Bad News 014 - Play 'more Chekovian than Kafkaesque'
		Cutting-edge theatre company Nu Kulture have admitted that they very nearly split up through a difference in artistic interpretation of their new two-man stage play, Homo Erectus.
		But plans to take the show to the Edinburgh festival next year were put on hold, after several weeks during which writers and performers Tim Peacer and Rakesh Saroapeena refused to speak to one another, resulting in Saroapeena leaving their shared studio apartment in the Barbican.
		Rakesh has since rescinded his point of view, on the basis that his collaborator had a better overall knowledge of deliberate and unintentional irony in the works of Chekov, and also because they use Tim's dad's van.
	www.depro.co.uk /badnews/news_014.asp (229 words)

	KAFKAESQUE News - All the news in Legal World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KAFKAESQUE News - All the news in Legal World
		But the pendulum to "combat hate" has now swung into a Kafkaesque, Orwellian zone.
		The Brooklyn man freed last month after spending 22 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit is now embroiled in another Kafkaesque nightmare - this time with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
	www.lawyer-news.info /news-about-Kafkaesque.htm (541 words)

	Library Association Boss Calls Patriot Act 'Kafkaesque'
		The president of the American Library Association has one word for the USA Patriot Act's so-called library clause -- "Kafkaesque."
		Alluding to writers George Orwell and Franz Kafka, Gorman said of the Patriot Act, "I'm much too fond of Orwell to call it Orwellian, but it's Kafkaesque."
		Where Orwell's novel "1984" foresaw a future where the government spied on everyone and Kafka's "The Trial" told of one man's futile battle against unnamed government charges, Gorman said the Patriot Act intrudes on privacy but has little chance of accomplishing its aim of protecting against terrorism.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/patriot_act_library_assn_calls_kafkaesque.htm (598 words)

	Kafkaesque Justice: Nikitin to Guantanamo
		Nikitin was acquitted, eventually, by the Supreme Court.
		And I returned to my home in America, where the state is less Kafkaesque.
		Then my president announced that he could solemnly, if informally, claim to be "at war" with something as vague as "terror" -- and then, on that grounds, lock people up without trials or lawyers or...
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2003/09/10/009.html (243 words)

	defective yeti: Kafkaesque
		I suspect that many of you are here because Kafkaesque was kind enough to link to the yeti on his blog.
		I was saying that it's a staggering coincidence that Kafkaesque linked to the yeti yesterday, because I had been totally planning to link to his site, My Life As An American Gladiator, today on my home page!
		I called it "Super August First Gladiator Surprise!" And although I admit the whole thing looks a little chummy, I can assure you that neither tit nor tat is involved.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/000317.html (204 words)

	9622.net: SecretMonkeyHead Link courtesy of Kafkaesque,
		Link courtesy of Kafkaesque, who apparently doesn't feel like sharing with the class.
		See, I was just waiting until I had built up a huge backlog of monkey links and then I was going to...umm..I was...
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