Kafkaesque
Franz Kafka was a German-language writer from Bohemia whose works are filled with themes and the archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations. The term Kafkaesque was created later to describe surreal situations like those in his writings.
This is a visual essay on Franz Kafka's stories and novels. Characters in his fictions often lack a clear course of action to escape a labyrinthine situation. Bureaucracies overpower people in a surreal and nightmarish atmosphere, which evokes the feelings of senselessness, disorientation and helplessness. Such imageries were adopted to visually communicate Kafka’s incomprehensibly intricate, bizarre and illogical situations in his stories and novels.
The Trial
A Country Doctor
Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
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