Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature
By (Author) Gilles Deleuze
Contributions by Felix Guattari
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
31st October 1986
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
833.912
Paperback
136
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
In this classic of critical thought, Deleuze and Guattari challenge conventional interpretations of Kafkas work. Instead of exploring preexisting categories or literary genres, they propose a concept of minor literaturethe 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.