Kafka
Toward a Minor Literature
136 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816615155
- Published: October 31, 1986
- Series: Theory and History of Literature
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Kafka
Toward a Minor Literature
Series: Theory and History of Literature
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.