La metamorfosis

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.