Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature / Edition 1

by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816615155
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	10/31/1986
Series:	Theory and History of Literature , #30
Edition description:	First edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)