| Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Volume 30 Contributor(s): Deleuze, Gilles (Author), Guattari, Felix (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0816615152 ISBN-13: 9780816615155 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $22.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1986 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Dewey: 833.912 |
| LCCN: 85031822 |
| Series: Theory & History of Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.06" W x 9.06" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |