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People generally use "Kafkaesque" as a metaphor, perhaps to describe an especially aggravating trip to the DMV.

“It’s creating the potential for some Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmares every time they make a mistake — and there will be mistakes.”

At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern explains this is worse than Kafkaesque horror:

I thought things could get no worse than this Kafkaesque blackhole.

Cutler-Kreutz, who co-wrote and co-directed with his brother, David, laments a “Kafkaesque” immigration system labyrinthine enough to confuse native-born Americans, much less noncitizens attempting to follow the rules to gain legal status.