Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze, ISBN-13: 978-0816615155

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze, ISBN-13: 978-0816615155

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• Publisher: ‎ University of Minnesota Press; First edition (November 21, 1986)
• Language: ‎ English
• 136 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0816615152
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0816615155

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.

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)intrepreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka’s work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) also coauthored Anti-Oedipus and Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. Among Deleuze’s other books are Essays Critical and Clinical, Foucault, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, and Cinema 2: The Time-Image. All of these works are available from the University of Minnesota Press.

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