Kafka

Kafka

Toward a Minor Literature

Gilles Deleuze

Contributions by Félix Guattari

136 Pages, 6 x 9 in

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Kafka

Toward a Minor Literature

Series: Theory and History of Literature

Gilles Deleuze

Contributions by Félix Guattari

ISBN: 9780816615155

Publication date: October 31st, 1986

136 Pages

9 x 5

In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafka’s work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of “minor literature”—the use of a major language that subverts it from within. Writing as a Jew in Prague, they contend, Kafka made German “take flight on a line of escape” and joyfully became a stranger within it. His work therefore serves as a model for understanding all critical language that must operate within the confines of the dominant language and culture.