Most of Franz Kafka's stories are inhabited by characters captive in despair and restlessness. The Metamorphosis, his most famous work, tells the story of the traveling salesman Gregrorio Samsa, who woke up one morning, after a restless dream, found himself transformed into a monstrous insect in his bed. The setting of the story is an unfair and unreasonable world, with people indifferent to their environment who act under the control and repression of family, friends and society. Unintentionally, Franz Kafka shared with his readers a detailed portrait of the pain that he himself felt. During his life Kafka burned most of his work and after his death, at the age of 41, a letter was found on his desk, it was addressed to his great friend Max Brod: Burn these pages (diaries, manuscripts and letters), I belong to the fire Brod disobeyed the will of his friend and promoted the publication of his unpublished works; The process (1925), The castle (1926) and America (1927). Without Max Brod we would never make Kafka, one of the great references of 20th century literature, known. Unfortunately Kafka never met Franz Kafka, the great writer.