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...omicality of the horror beyond tragedy in the Stalinist [[discourse]]. The Kafkaesque quality of the eerie [[laughter]] that erupted among the public during Bukh ...ial]] of [[subjectivity]] is rendered [[explicit]] from Stalin's following Kafkaesque reply to Bukharin:</p>

The subject thus finds himself in a Kafkaesque situation of being [[guilty]] for not even [[knowing]] what (if anything) h

...rick. The game Stalin played was the pure [[superego]] game; Stalinism was Kafkaesque in the sense that it wasn't totalitarian. Ok, it was, ultra-totalitarian, b

...e, you are yourself free to decide what to publish' - which was the really Kafkaesque [[situation]]. At least with Polish censorship, it was a strict [[bureaucra

...'immediated-abbreviated' by Kafka, and Kafka 'explicates' them, the true 'Kafkaesque' quality Borges is trying to put his finger on is the relationship between

...hetic attempt to wriggle free is quite comical." Along the same lines, the Kafkaesque quality of the eerie laughter that erupted among the public during Bukharin

The shock of Scottie at the moment of recognition is also a Kafkaesque one. In the same way that, at the end of the parable on the Door of the Law

...plexed protestation of innocence is always accompanied by an indeterminate Kafkaesque feeling of "abstract" guilt, a feeling that, in the eyes of Power, I am a p