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Mundo Animal is a collection of stories that opens the literary career of the Mendocinian narrator, Antonio Di Benedetto. The book, difficult to locate in its genre, presents a strong ethical intention pointed out explicitly by the same author. Besides, it is evident the filial connection to Kafka of many of these stories. This relationship is observed especially in the heavily oneiric and oppressive atmosphere, both for characters and readers, in the short interest in the surrounding reality and in the presence of a schematic and highly symbolic space. This paper proposes analyzing the cracks on this space that, though it does not reflect the neighboring or referential reality, it deepens into other realities of profound relevance to the contemporary man. Among these schematic settings, though metaphorically valuable, the strong presence of the body is to be highlighted, presented in many stories as a space within which the action takes place, or heavily involved. First, there will be studied the notions of body and corporality (physical presence) in Di Benedetto's cultural horizon; then there will be analyzed specifically the stories that textualise the corporal space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]