But
underground passages are also hiding places and refuges. Kafka's text
The Burrow
develops this specific feature of underground space: the narator is
an undefined being completely dedicated to the task of building
himself a perfect burrow, completly still. The text is unraveling in
long sentences, going in circles and drilling through the language
littles galeries, holes, little cells, still and empty.
The animal-Kafka uses language as a mean to
create space: language being the first place from which the subject
emerges, it's therefore the most intimate, the last refuge for the
displaced, expelled, the ones without a home except for the stacks of
words they're piling up around them like little cubes. But using
language in its very materiality is also a way to thrust it outside
of its own limits, to deteritorialize it, to allow it to escape the
control of the majority and to become the language of those who write
"like a rat digs his burrow".
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