ABSTRACT
In 1975, when Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari presented their modest book on Kafka, many critics thought that the thesis defended in it could be chalked up to the militant "schizoanalysis" of Anti-Oedipus. Creating the concept of "minor literature" with respect to Kafka's work, Deleuze and Guattari have brought about not merely a simple reterritorializing revaluation of literature, but a drastic change of the entire economy of "literature" itself as a compendium of hierarchically ordered literary genres or as a center of subjectification. The first fundamental characteristic has to do with the forces that determine the relationship that the writers concerned have with the languages involved. The second characteristic of "minor literatures", according to Deleuze and Guattari, is that "everything in them is political". The third characteristic of minor literature that Deleuze and Guattari discuss and which, from a certain perspective, is derived directly from the first two, "is that in it everything takes on a collective value".
