Kafka Toward a Minor Literature

Synopsis

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.