Publisher: A Kafkaesque nightmare at the Ministry of Tourism

I had been reading Franz Kafka since I was a teenager, but without the same concerns I have today, when we are poring over the composition of three novels that are similar to the themes explored in their narratives. We all, at some point, go through some Kafkaesque experience in life. With this editor it would not be different, especially living in a country like ours, of favors, subservience, far from the effective ideal of recognition of rights or institutionalized and republican practices, as observed by Victor Nunes Leal.

The magnificent biography written by Max Brod on the Jewish-Czech writer helps a lot in this endeavor. Both met in their teens, studied at the same university and became friends for the rest of their lives. Max Brod had as much talent as Kafka, but he ended up being eclipsed by his friend, who would become a world famous writer, although works by him were not published until after his death. Max Brod would only be known as the person who wrote the definitive biography of the author of The Process and twice saved his work from destruction, including the Nazi rage against books.

He was wronged, since, in reality, he was also a talented writer, having published dozens of books. 83 in all. The reference to the Czech writer, here, is justified when we become aware of the scabrous skirmishes that occur in the corridors of the federal capital, involving the death throes of the relationship between the Legislative and Executive powers. Yesterday, in a meeting with Federal Deputy Celso Sabino, from the União Brasil do Pará, Lula practically sealed the fate of Daniela Carneiro in the management of the Ministry of Tourism. On the way back from your trip to Europe, the hammer must be beaten.

Daniela Carneiro's head was requested by her own party, União Brasil. And we are not dealing here with a management reorientation, or a concern with the results achieved by the ministry, with regard to the benefits produced by the sector, with the population as beneficiaries, naturally. Even so, in a Kafka-like way, we are dealing here with a "management" problem, but with the funds allocated to the body, which the zealous members of the party would like to have free access to, but they run into resistance from the minister.