"When Gregorio Samsa woke up one morning, after a restless sleep, he found himself in his bed turned into a monstrous insect." Such is the abrupt beginning, which places us from the roots under different rules, of "The Metamorphosis", without a doubt the work of Franz Kafka that has achieved the greatest celebrity. Written in 1912 and published in 1916, this story is considered one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century for its undeniable precursor features and the wealth of ideas and interpretations that it has always elicited.