Definitions for kafka
ˈkɑf kɑ, -kəkaf·ka

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Kafka, Franz Kafkanoun

   Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924)

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1. kafka

   Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Czech novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing.Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time by an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died in obscurity in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis. Kafka was a prolific writer, spending most of his free time writing, often late in the night. He burned an estimated 90% of his total work due to his persistent struggles with self-doubt. Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Contemplation and A Country Doctor, and individual stories (such as "The Metamorphosis") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. In his will, Kafka instructed his literary executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, but Brod ignored these instructions, and had much of his work published. Franz Kafka is among those artists who reached fame only after their deaths: it was only after 1945 that his work became famous in German-speaking countries, whose literature it has since greatly influenced, and in the 1960s elsewhere in the world. Kafka's work has influenced a range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.

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1. kafka

   Franz Kafka was a highly influential German-speaking author of novels and short stories from Prague in the early 20th century. His work, characterized by a grim, surrealistic style, often explores complex themes of existential anxiety, alienation and guilt. Kafka's notable works include "The Metamorphosis," "The Trial," and "The Castle." His distinctive narrative style inspired a new term - "Kafkaesque," used to describe surrealistic, complex, and frustrating situations reminiscent of his writings. Despite his literary significance, Kafka remained relatively unknown during his lifetime and his works were mostly published posthumously.

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1. Kafka

   Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Ostensibly a biopic, based on the life of Franz Kafka, the film blurs the lines between fact and Kafka's fiction, creating a Kafkaesque atmosphere. It was written by Lem Dobbs, and stars Jeremy Irons in the title role, with Theresa Russell, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Joel Grey, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Alec Guinness. Released after Soderbergh's critically acclaimed debut Sex, Lies, and Videotape it was the first of what would be a series of low-budget box-office disappointments. It has since become a cult film, being compared to Terry Gilliam's Brazil and David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

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1. KAFKA

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Kafka is ranked #16761 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Kafka surname appeared 1,705 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Kafka.
   
   93.4% or 1,594 total occurrences were White.
   3.4% or 59 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.3% or 23 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.2% or 22 total occurrences were Asian.

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1. • Writer

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How to pronounce kafka?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of kafka in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of kafka in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of kafka in a Sentence

1. Alan Dershowitz:

   It's like Josef K in Kafka, the difference is that Josef K lost. In the end I will prevail. They took on the wrong innocent person.

2. Stefan Litt:

   Parts of them are known, others aren't so - that's maybe one of the most important things, ...All the writings by Kafka that we have now in our custody will be digitized and will be open for the public worldwide.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=kafka
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=kafka
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=kafka