Kafka y Bolaño: ¿Para una literatura menor?

This research proposes a comparative analysis between the narrative of Franz Kafka and Roberto Bolaño. Specifically, the study was centered into establish both convergences and divergences between the two authors. The study used a methodology supported in the contributions made by several authors to the development of comparative literature (i.e., Aldridge, Clements, Wellek, Warren and Chaitin). This research focuses their interest in the three characteristics of minor literature proposed by Deleuze and Guattari. It is argued that Kafka and Bolaño perform a teratological literature that share two characteristics of minor literature, however they differ in other characteristic issue. Both authors make a deterritorialization use of language, which is a product of life experiences in various Western cities, and in addition, they have made an articulation of the individual in the immediate-political, because their writing projects give particular emphasis to the treatment of power. Nevertheless, Kafka and Bolaño have made a marked distance in terms of the collective character in their literary productions. While this feature can be recognized in the author of The castle, specially by the treatment of his stories as well as the use of the letter K to designate a collective protagonist, this is not the case with the author of 2666, who only gives to one part of their narratives that aspect, and the use of the consonant B is employed to identify a particular protagonist. This research discusses the idea of Deleuze and Guattari in order to associate both Bolaño and Kafka, with the lack of talent and the impossibility of perform a literature of "masters".