All the names

Joseph K. that Kafkawi explorer, called here Mr. Jose, a man living in the kingdom of shadows: it is a city without a name, swept by rain, inhabited by unknown-named ghosts completely. Every morning, Mr. Jose locks himself behind the barren walls of the General Archives Center affiliated with the Civil Status Department, to oversee the files of the living and the dead along with the corrupt-minded bureaucrats. From these dark, dust-laden tunnels of our fates, the writer conducts a hallucinatory description: there is a hellish detention, a cemetery of souls cast over with tons of black sarcasm. And to escape the terror of this bitter task, the hero begins gathering information about the top hundred personalities of the country. Therefore, Mr. Jose sneaks at night, through a secret gate, into the labyrinths of the archives (this reminds us of Teseus in Greek mythology, but he is a contemporary Teseus), to search the archive and steal the files that interest him and benefit his strange encyclopedia about famous personalities.