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Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous bug. This is not a nightmare: this traveling salesman will never regain his human identity. The family marginalizes him in his room out of fear and shame, and from that moment everything changes in their lives. The protagonist, turned into a beast and plunged into the most absolute isolation, is reduced to nothing and inexorably drawn into death. A sublime expression of the Kafkaesque man, The Metamorphosis, written in 1912 and published for the first time in 1916, is considered a masterpiece and is already a primary text of 20th century world literature.
Franz Kafka was considered one of the most influential in world literature. His work is full of themes and archetypes about alienation and physical and psychological violence, family conflicts. His novels are characterized because his characters are always immersed in totally unusual, absurd and distressing situations (hence the colloquial expression of Kafkaesque situation). His peculiar literary style is associated with existentialism and expressionism. Kafka specialists cannot agree on how to interpret the author. One part talks about the political-religious influence and another about the psychological content of his works, but what everyone agrees on is the influence that personal relationships had on his writing, especially with his father, his fiancée and his sister. His work has influenced great writers such as Camus, Sartre, Borges or Gabriel García Márquez.
