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Kafka and the dialect of minor literature. (Franz Kafka) (Special Section: Critical Theory and the Sociocultural Opening in Eastern Europe)

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From: College Literature
Date: 19940201
Author:Corngold, Stanley

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in 'Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature' use a five-page diary entry by Franz Kafka on the literature of small nations to justify the assertion of ethnicity in Central and Eastern European countries. Although Kafka wrote in German with a Yiddish flair, he himself lays claim neither to writing in a dialect nor the politicization of literature. Contrary to the claimes of Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka wrote that minor literature encouraged individualism among writers.

In one's own language, however, were one only to say something as exactly and as uncompromisingly ...

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