Kafkaesque
Style and writing so particular, that anything which resembles it, is referred to as kafkaesque.
Uniquely dark, disorienting, surreal writing style
Reflections from the early life: born a small, anxious, sickly child and a source of disappointment and sort of a psychological punching bag for his father, with no fault of his, and his father's failure to constantly mould him into a person he was not.
His life borders were defined by his father, forcing him to proceed with law as a profession. Continued writing still, first three collections sold poorly, went unnoticed.
Initial work life subjected to unpaid overtime, massive paperwork, absurd complex bureaucratic systems. Miserable life. Left writings unfinished, unpublished works: The Trial, The Castle and Amerika. Believed them unworthy.
No success, acknowledgement, recognition during lifetime for the small amount of work he did. Died believing all of them made no sense, unworthy any good.
Instructed to burn all works while on deathbed but it didn't happen as here we are talking about him.
Kafka became one of the greatest thinkers, philosophical and literary figures.
Lived his life with his work buried under some drawer aware, unaware or indifferent of the fact, he was sitting on some of the most significant works in recent history.
Kafkaesque: bureaucratic nature of capitalistic, judiciary and government system. Complex unclear processes wherein no individual has any grasp on what is really going on.
The crux of his style is carried by the confrontation with the absurd. Conflict in which character's sense of the world, efforts reasoning met by inescapable parameters of senselessness. Success seems impossible thus pointless. Yet, they try anyway.
To have lived and died having never realised one's potential, stuck in a bureaucratic cog of a business organisation. To have felt the guilt and anxiety of existence for no clear reason.
Work is not considered great, not because it's profoundly unique but because it's mundanely common in a profound way.
