I was in great difficulty. An urgent journey was facing me. A seriously ill man was waiting for me in a village ten miles distant. A severe snowstorm filled the space between him and me. I had a carriage—a light one, with large wheels, entirely suitable for our country roads. Wrapped up in furs with the bag of instruments in my hand, I was already standing in the courtyard ready for the journey; but the horse was missing—the horse. My own horse had died the previous night, as a result of overexertion in this icy winter. My servant girl was at that very moment running around the village to see if she could borrow a horse, but it was hopeless—I knew that—and I stood there useless, increasingly covered with snow, becoming all the time more immobile.
Franz Kafka es uno de los escritores más importantes de la Literatura del siglo XX. En contra de sus deseos, su obra ha llegado hasta nuestros días y sigue despertando la admiración y el asombro del público contemporáneo. Entre sus obras más importantes se encuentran El proceso, La condena y La metamorfosis, uno de los relatos más conmovedores e inquietantes de la literatura de todos los tiempos.
