Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Volume 30

ISBN-13: 9780816615155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 136 str.

Gilles Deleuze; Felix Guattari; Dana Polan

Opis

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.