Kafka na Kafka

“Kafka after Kafka” (Dutch: “Kafka na Kafka”) tries, by unraveling the complex 'topography' Deleuze & Guattari make of Kafka's work, to answer the question how to position their book Kafka – Towards a minor literature amidst the large amount of literature written about Kafka and his works. This topography involves Kafka's search for an absolute deterritorialisation, the need of which he becomes aware of through writing his letters. Although Kafka's stories eventually get caught up in an oscillation between poles, they do provide a first attempt at such a deterritorialisation. Finally, in the novels which can't possibly end, Kafka succeeds by having desire connect an infinite amount of segments to each other and thus create an assemblage that both constructs and destructs itself. Though Deleuze & Guattari's claim of a sole topography/experimentation (as opposed to interpretation) can certainly be disputed, it can be concluded that Kafka is an extraordinary and revolutionary work in grasping something vast and visible throughout Kafka's work; after Kafka, Kafka won't ever be the same.