main character into a vermin, to trigger the transformation of his role in the family. Franz Kafka, was born the 3rd of July, 1883, in Prague. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, and studied law at the university of Prague. In 1923 he briefly moved to Berlin in the hope of distancing himself from his family's influence to concentrate on his writing. He died the 3rd of June , 1924, in Prague, due to tuberculosis. ¨Metamorphosis” was first published in 1915. It talks about a traveling salesman