"Kaufmanesque" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014, Bob Zmuda, Lynne Margulies, Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally, BenBella Books, page 43",
          "text": "Once Lynne and I realized that Jim was going to approach the role of Kaufman in a “method acting,” Kaufmanesque kind of way—i.e., he would become Andy or Tony Clifton for the entire shoot, never breaking character […]",
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          "ref": "2013, Judith Buchanan, editor, The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship, Springer, page 175",
          "text": "[…] as playwright Alan Bennett remarks, ‘You don't put yourself in your screenplays. You find yourself there.’ That, surely, is a paradox of Kaufmanesque dimensions.",
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          "ref": "2020 September 1, A. O. Scott, “‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "When I accepted the assignment to review Charlie Kaufman’s new movie, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” I vowed that I would avoid the recursive, self-conscious, Kaufmanesque flourishes that afflict so much writing about this screenwriter and filmmaker.",
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