ABSTRACT
Talking as a critic and a student/teacher of literature, there are some general problems with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's text. The impossibility of writing in German is the deterritorialization of the German population itself, an oppressive minority that speaks a language cut off from the masses. In Jeet Thayil's collection, English: Poems, for instance, English is posited as the only 'nation' for the poet, which implies the disjunction that exists between the language of their enunciation and the political nation of India. Literature might even be the earliest instrument for thinking known to human beings, as all religions seem to recognise. Written literature demands a highly complex and focused kind of contemplation. The contemplation that literature demands always involves engaging with others, for it is not just a text written by someone else but also contains other selves.
