Interesting fact: Kafka always thought of his work to be unworthy and nevery published it himself. Today, he's one of the world's most famous authors.

"And we find our every word judged by people we can't see, by rules we don't know." Damn

The creativity that went into the animation is at another level.

'I gotta pay taxes now? That's messed up, yo. That's kafka-esque'

Kafkaesque is my favorite word in the dictionary. There’s something about the hopelessness of absurdity, the bottomless pit of schedules and control and manipulation, something about life in general that is so inherently nightmarish and illogical. And I’d say that the word Kafkaesque sums it all up as perfectly as you can ask for.

The Trial is real. When I read it, I kept thinking how messed up it is that police and district attorneys don't care about about finding the person who committed the crime, all they care about is finding a person that they can most easily convict of the crime. It's scary because it's true and can happen to anyone at any time.

I remember as a kid reading The Metamorphosis in school and being hopelessly confused about what the book was or why it was important. Aside from being a subpar English student, I simply don't think I had enough life experience to appreciate the abstract concepts my teacher (and the author) was trying to convey.

“Yeah that shit’s totally kafkaesque, yo”

Ted really outdid themselves with the visuals in this one.

I really wish that I could meet such artists who struggled and were only recognised posthumously, like Van Gogh and Franz Kafka, and tell them they made a difference. That the world changed because of them.

I read somewhere how the Trial spoke to Joseph’s denial of his own mortality and imperfect nature, thus his crime is the denial of being human. The ego doesn’t usually want to acknowledge its own wrongdoings or mistakes, holding itself above as something better than everyone else and refusing to admit fault. Put that on trial with endless bureaucratic pressure to admit guilt without proof and you’ve got an ego stuck like ouroboros in a judicial system that perpetuates itself as well. Fun idea to chew on, don’t know if it’s even close to what Kafka intended either. But like this video mentioned, this take still brings together the cogs of today’s bureaucracy with the individual who is caught up in it. Tell me if you know where this take came from it’s driving me nuts.

I had a Kafkaesque dream last week. I said goodbye to my friends and wanted to run to the train station to catch the train to the future. But in order to do so, I had to climb down the spiral stairs of the building was in. It felt never-ending. For every short flight of stairs, I was greeted with 1-2 doors that led to small rooms. The doors were always very heavy and absurd looking some I needed to squeeze through. The rooms were so small and filled with furniture and there was barely any space to walk to the other side of the room where another flight of stairs is. I eventually got out and ran a short distance to the train station. I looked back before entering the train, woke up, and my entire body was aching from the ordeal. The youtube algo is scary. I would have never searched for this.

Ted and TedEd makes me learn things I didn't know I wanted to learn

I read an article on Kafkaesque. It says when someone going to catch a bus and finding that all the buses have stopped running and saying that's Kafkaesque. That's not." "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. "You don't give up, you don't lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don't stand a chance. That's Kafkaesque."

"Take for example Kafka's most greatest story" Me: Alright *Metamorphosis* Me: *PTSD*

We should really change the phrase to "Please no meat touching ma'am."

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -Oscar Wilde

If I submitted this to my AP English teacher, she would still give it a B-

I thought it also related to the concept of boundaries in a way. In stoker it shocked me to see the Stoker tell the protagonist to lay on his bed. 2 people just met and the main character is already sitting in his bed. In the context it makes sense, there is no space available. But something about it really makes it itch lol. The first story I ever read from him is even more bizarre as the main character is talking about being on a swing etc, then goes home for supper, and the people outside "open the windows of his living room to have a better look at him and talk to him". This caught me so off guard I cannot even put it into words. I haven't read that much from him but it does seem like "personal space" is a concept that is constantly being subverted in his stuff.

There are 3 things I noticed about Kafka or Kafkaesque. 1) His life seems to be very similar to Vincent Van Gogh. 2) Morrissey seems to be the epitome of it. 3) Franz Kafka's life seems to have been very kafkaesque. Especially how he achieved fame and recognition after he died.

This is the best time in history to appreciate the true meaning of "Kafkaesque"

Graphically this video is a rather amazing piece of art. And the writing is superbly. Can the whole internet please be like this.

big props to the animator, they done a great job at illustrating what the narrator was saying

“Who is Kafkaesque? I’ve never - I don’t know him.” - Michael Scott

2:04 look at that transition. LOOK AT IT.

"Kafkaesque" describes all too well the nature of my most distressing dreams. The need to achieve a goal which is so unnecessary difficult and tedious only to wonder if the goal was even worth it in the end

the animation on these videos are just as amazing as the work they portray! great art all over!

Kafka never wanted his work to get published. He asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his work after his death. But Brod ignored his request and published all his work.

In conclusion: Poseidon is left handed.

I like that every few often, KZfaq decides to educate us.

This was recommended to me so many times and I'm finally here. Hope I won't be disappointed.

Me, a casual honkai star rail user . "Colour me as surprised my friends"

"Why don’t I keep sleeping for a little while longer and forget all this foolishness" -the metamorphosis

Kafkaesque is literally "Why were still here... just to suffer... everynight"

The Time Variance Authority in Loki seems quite Kafkaesque.

‘You need someone who understands your references. Who is kafkaesque? I never - I don’t know him’ - Michael G Scott

The animation is great.

I don't think Kafka ever said anything about that bit at the end, where "you are free to make the world better" or whatever. I think you guys added that so no one commits suicide or anything

Ummmmm i came searching for a Kafka guide in HSR and i ended up here. Thank you youtube algorithm?

As someone who has to write an essay on Charles Dickens 'Bleak House', this video is a complete goldmine

"Dying in anonymity. Regretfully admitting his art has always been a fraud. He fasted not through strength of Will but simply because he never found a food he liked." I didn't know I needed to hear that.

“That’s kafkaesque yo” -Jesse Pinkman~

OK I WILL WATCH BECAUSE YOU WONT GET OFF MY FEED

Honkai Star Rail summoned me

"This is a system that doesn't serve justice, but whose sole function is to perpetuate itself" I'll never look at the world the same way again o_o"

KZfaq is the perfect example, the video recommendation algorithms is a mystery that few can unravel, who knows how much good content got buried because the program deemed them not to be.

This video wouldn’t leave me alone so I decided to finally give in

Our highschool German teacher made us read Kafka. I never got the stories until years later when I entered the workforce and started working for large, complex government organizations. The hilarious thing is that some of the situations you find yourself in are every bit as confusing and ridiculous as the stories in Kafka's writing. It is clear where he got his inspiration.

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency." Eugene McCarthy

Finally found the word to describe my life

Both Metamorphosis & The Trial were love at first read for me. 10 years later, I want to see how things might have changed for me once again getting hands on them. ❤️

the people working behind Ted-Ed videos Really love their work.

Dang i want to read Kafka’s stories right now

i never heard about this Kafkaesque before but it's quite interesting

Excellent video man. Informative and interesting, but concise and thorough. Some people would turn this into a 20 minute video. Nice work

*"The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends...Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere”* -Ratatouille

When your a young adult society seems Completely like this before you enter it. It's all just systems, lines and routines that no-one has told you about in detail.

Kafka's The Castle is one of the most depressingly nightmarish books I've read, and the fact that it ends prematurely (as it was never finished) is somehow very fitting. Even the movie I saw just ends suddenly, which was a nice touch.

It’s quality this channel, only discovered it 3 weeks ago but very informative and interesting way of explaining things.

That last line in this video is golden. No, it isn't golden, it's the most valuable solid substance in this universe.

In my country, France, last month, a terrain owner was condemned to fill his pond, because the toads are too noisy for his neighbour. Meanwhile, a court decision is threatening him of prison and fees, if he destroys the protected toads' environment.

I'm more confused after than when I started

im here for honkai star rail

After being recommended this video well over 50 times, I decided it was finally time to watch it. ARE YOU HAPPY, ALGORITHM SAMA?!?

In other words he writes about my fever dreams.

I think it simply means being put in an absurd situation, but because of failing to understand the current circumstance, the person also failed to respond accordingly, thus trapping onself to the absurdity.

The animator who did this one deserves an Oscar.

I think the small related theme of bugs ties to how insects like ants behave, they work endlessly in their own complicated system, like one small cog in an organised workforce dedicated to one thing

The visuals stunning and incredibly thought through! Props to the animators!

This reminded me about Breaking Bad. Jesse: "Now I gotta pay taxes? What the hell man it's kafkaesque!" Skinny Pete: "Church."

The way I've always figured to describe Kafkaesque is thus: You are waiting in a line at a government building, you are waiting to fill out a form with a long and complicated title that even the employees don't understand, as if the title and contents of each page are written in an eldritch tongue decipherable only if you are insane enough to find the meaning sane. Or are sane enough to dedicate your life to being insane enough to navigate the grimoire of Bureaucracy lain out before you. You know what you have to put on the page but you don't understand why. After reaching the front of the line you fill out the paperwork and are told by a disinterested gaunt man to proceed to a door downstairs leading to a hallway leading to an elevator which you must take upstairs. By the time you reach your destination, you had almost forgotten why you were there in the first place, you then proceed to wait in a line so you may fill out paperwork, and that paperwork entitles you to wait in another line, down another hall, through another door, up another set of stairs. You could swear every door and staircase and hallway are photocopies of each other, the only minute differences being the names on the doors and the tasteless artwork hung on the walls in some vain attempt to make the monotony less monotonous, the lack of creativity attributed to said paintings having the opposite effect. Wait why was I here? Oh, right paperwork. In other more simple words, Kafkaesque to me is an overcomplication of monotony. The hilarity of dream logic complicating an otherwise boring day, a wizard could show up at your door and tell you it's time to go on a grand quest to save the world, a journey that would give experience worthy of a thousand lifetimes, but who has time for that? You're running late to work!

I feel like if Kafka read modern Middle grade books he would have liked "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

Can we just take a time to appreciate people who draw the animation:)

I wish i could hug him and tell him how brilliant he truly was

Franz Kafka was actually a very weird, hated man. He claimed he was popular and respected in a society, but when he died, his body lied i his appartment for two weeks before anyone noticed he was gone (mainly a landlord was asking about him because he didn't pay the rent). Deep inside, he knew about his weirdness, so he wrote Metamorphosis as a result.

Fun fact: Kafka and all of this information is something most Germans learn in school. I feel like that's one of the things that actually matter

“Kafkas most famous story, metamorphosis” My hearts skipped a beat there

This was the best explanation I heard about his topic

Damn, I was just sitting in bed, didn’t expect to get a lesson making me question everything :/

"We find our every word judged by people we can't see, according to rules we don't know" Words of true wisdom

There is no way to use this word casually (in English) without sounding pretentious

Thank you all for your service.

Theory in Honkai Star Rail: Kafka could have been blamed of smth bad but the real fact is that their clan is actually the good one's

"Hey, what do I need to do to get out of a jail sentence?" "No”.

congrats for pulling a motivational final message out of Kafka, truly a commendable feat.

Some truly elegant artwork I'm blown away so good

It feels good being able to fully conceive a Ted Ed video

"The world is one we create and have the power to change for the better." Yet you just mentioned that even the most powerful people can't control the system that's built itself to perpetuate itself.

This actually made me want to read Kafka. Great job!

Nice to see one of my favorite czech authors being internationally recognised

Beautifully concise and well presented.

As a child, I was repeatedly told by my mother that I deserve punishment but never told what I deserve it for or what her reasoning might be. Never knew my childhood was kafkaesque...

I disagree with that happy note at the end. Kafka doesn't project that at all.

This video has One of the most impactful and creative animation.

Great video, I really like how it was well-explained, also together with Prague. It is believed that one cannot fully understand Kafka without knowing Prague. I think that's true.

The sad part of the story is that the guy flying with his wings will end in another line, behind someone else thinking is free but he will never be free. He jumped from one whole to another. "Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think" Horace Walpole

To me, "Kafkaesque" includes unexplained, nightmarish persecution or tortuous frustration.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

Absolutely beautifully explained. Thanks.

Kafka's stories are unsettling, but if you are not laughing when you read his work, you are not getting it. He used to read his stories to his friends and he could barely get through them because he was laughing so hard.