kafkaesque

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kafkaesque - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

kafkaesque - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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"