Kafka: Toward a Minor LiteratureIn 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. |
Contents
Content and Expression | 3 |
An Exaggerated Oedipus | 9 |
What Is a Minor Literature? | 16 |
The Components of Expression | 28 |
Immanence and Desire | 43 |
Proliferation of Series | 53 |
The Connectors | 63 |
Blocks Series Intensities | 72 |
What Is an Assemblage? | 81 |
Notes | 91 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract machine already Amerika animal artist assemblage of enunciation become becoming-animal Benjamin bureaucratic Castle chapter child childhood block connection contiguous Czech Deleuze and Guattari desire deterritorialization diabolical pact Diaries dismantling door double everything example familial triangle faraway father Félix Guattari field of immanence form of content Franz Kafka function gears German German language Gilles Deleuze Gregor guilt hallway head incest infinite innocence intensities interpretation judges justice language letters to Felice line of escape literary machine longer machine of expression machinic assemblage machinic indexes Max Brod Metamorphosis Milles Plateaux minor literature movement musical dogs novel Oedipal opposed pact political portrait Prague Prague school proliferating Proust question repressed rhizome ritorialization schizo-incest segment sense signifier sister social field sort sound statement stories straightened subject of enunciation superficial take flight themes things tion Titorelli transcendence transcendental law translation Trial unlimited Wagenbach Wall of China women writing