KAFKA, DELEUZE E A LITERATURA MENOR EM A METAMORFOSE E NO PROCESSO.

Abstract

This paper aims to make an approximation of some concepts of the Philosophy of Difference as proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to Kafka´s so called Minor Literature, in specific The Metamorphosis and The Trial. For these philosophers, although Literature and Philosophy have different objects, they have bonds and come close to each other when they give their testimony of life. It is life that runs through literature; several types of devir overflow in literary writing: devir-man, devir-woman, devir-child, devir-animal, devir-molecule, imperceptible devir, flows of life and death shaping rizomes, agitating Franz Kafka´s world map. The character Gregor Samsa in Metamorphosis is a man, but a transformed man, turned into an insect, a deviranimal, a devir-molecule, a flow of desire, blocks of sensation. Kafka´s world is truly agitated, the political machine, the war machine are all connected, disconnected and re-connected, shuffling the codes in The Trial and in Metamorphosis and as they were shuffled, they took language to the limit, forcing thought to think and language to stutter, because language and thought fold themselves inside and outside through the forces of sign. In this movement between the inside and the outside, we are led to weave our third margin. Pointing the possible connections between Deleuze´s Philosophy of Difference and Literature, searching in the reflections, experimentation with some concepts such as sign, rizome, desire, agency, flows, machines and the concept of Minor Literature as a field of aesthetical experimentation, is the intention of this work.