Often Kafakaesque is used as hyperbole, but this description is pretty apt:
"What's Kafkaesque ... is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world." [1]
"What's Kafkaesque ... is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world." [1]
The Trial is an awesome book.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/29/nyregion/the-essence-of-k...