What does Kafkaesque actually mean and how is it supposed to be used?

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We are all probably familiar with this term, but I still have no idea what does it really mean. I’ve read two books by the author Franz Kafka, the guy who was the origin of this very term. I tried looking online, searching for definitions and stuff, but I still have no idea what was that all about, nobody explained it clearly. I wanted to find a simple definiton with an example, but I found pile of text. Maybe they need all that “extra” stuff to explain it because it is not very simple, I guess. Can it be explained in a few words, if so please do it and if not, I will go through the long version, too. Thank you.

Edit: Thank you, I went through your comments, they were really helpful.

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Funny. I thought this expression was typically French. We say « kafkaïen ». Same definition of course.

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