Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Volume 30 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816615155)

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.

Author: Gilles Deleuze
ISBN-10: 0816615152
ISBN-13: 9780816615155
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1986
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.39d