Kafka didn't know it, but when the story ofThe castle A century ago, with that poor surveyor trying in vain to reach the fortress where he was expected, he was describing with spectacular accuracy the relationship between the Catalans who go to Madrid to negotiate. Improvement is always looming on the horizon, on the top of the hill. But, alas, after hardships, unmet budgets, unexecuted projects, and tricky transfers... it never arrives.
In the 21st century, it is The Country who keeps the legacy of the Prague writer alive. Now that Sánchez is once again dancing to seduce his partners by offering them improvements, the cavern sells it as if they were already painfully severed limbs. But it is the Prisa newspaper that portrays with Kafkaesque precision the true nature of the agreement, which is nothing more than passing the days and pushing the legislature forward. Let's look at this magnificent subheading: "President Isla and Lehendakari Pradales will meet with the government to agree on pending improvements." Wait a minute, wait a minute: if they are pending, doesn't this mean that nothing should be agreed upon, but rather wait for them to be implemented once and for all? The following subheading is also enlightening: "The executive tries to advance the pact for the singular Catalan financing." No offers either is committed. Not even will advance: all there is is a lazy person try to move forward. You know, whoever does what they can is not obliged to do more and come back tomorrow, as Mariano José de Larra said, because we are with writers. I don't know if the joke of 'You have been psoeized' is the author's own creation. Poland or it was circulating on the networks, but The Country He adopts it without any shame, acting as a loudspeaker for these fizzy promises and writing it with so many conditions, precautions, obstacles and detours that Kafka would applaud with enthusiasm.
