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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Volume 30 - Deleuze, Gilles, Professor, and Guattari, Felix (Contributions by)
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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 ...

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Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature Volume 30 1986, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN

ISBN-13: 9780816615155

9th edition

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