"A Report to an Academy" is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation.
The narrator, speaking before a scientific conference, describes his former life as an ape. His story begins in a West African jungle, in which a hunting expedition shoots and captures him. Caged on a ship for his voyage to Europe, he finds himself for the first time without the freedom to move as he will.
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.
