KAFKA: AN AGENCY BETWEEN DELEUZE, GUATTARI AND BENJAMIN

Abstract

Using the works of Franz Kafka as a standpoint, this paper aims to establish proximities and detachments between the philosophical framework of Walter Benjamin and the duo Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. These authors have in Kafka’s work a common object of research. Benjamin’s motto of “history against the grain” will be paired with the deleuzoguattarian concept of “Minor literature”; both can be viewed as a way of expression for those who were silenced in the social fabric. The possibility of reading Kafka as a form to amplify these voices means the political disposition of kafkian work and the perception that both Deleuze/Guattari and Benjamin, each in their own way, consider that the emancipation of humanity is only possible with the disclosure of beings, narratives and history that resides beyond the social standards and norms.