That may be equivalent to “Kafkaesque” in English. But it’s not the same thing, quite. Among English speakers, the term is used almost exclusively by people who

That may be equivalent to “Kafkaesque” in English. But it’s not the same thing, quite. Among English speakers, the term is used almost exclusively by people who have never read Kafka, and refers vaguely to some situation of bureaucratic morass. EDIT: My “Kafka sensation” is an eerie feeling that one is confronted with a clinically exact description of a routine reality that, although it surrounds us always, is never spoken of, because it is too terrifying to confront.