Massimo Cacciari was mayor of Venice between 1993 and 2000 and a deputy in the Italian Parliament. He spoke about Franz Kafka this Wednesday at the Madrid Student Residence.

He commented that in many of his texts -- he referred to them as fables -- he connected with some of the issues that have most occupied thinkers of the 20th century. He focused above all on the treatment of space, which no longer has anything to do with the closed conception that Aristotle or Dante had of it.