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Kafka

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A Czech surname, most famously borne by the writer Franz Kafka, known for his surreal and unsettling fiction.
"The professor assigned a novel by Kafka for the seminar."

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In plain EnglishThe adjective "Kafkaesque," derived from this name, describes nightmarishly complex or illogical bureaucratic situations.

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