But I know the situation is unstable, like the world in a Kafka novel.

Secret imprisonment conjures up Kafka novels, and nonfiction stories of life in a police state.

But I soon found myself in a Kafka novel of bureaucracy, buck-passing and incompetence.

Reading their review papers side by side gives the reader a distinct feeling of having awakened in a Kafka novel.

I have gone round so many times I feel I am in a Kafka novel.

Anyone appearing before a certain judge in Atlanta is advised to "read a Kafka novel before you go into his courtroom - you'll feel right at home."

"I'm in the middle of a Kafka novel," Mr. McKinnon said in a telephone interview today.

"I was shocked how something like this could happen," he said yesterday, describing the experience as something out of a Kafka novel.

I felt like a character in a Kafka novel.

This administration has turned our country into a Kafka novel.