In the story "Axolotl," by Julio Cortazar we read about a curious individual that experiences a strange feeling of affinity and attraction to the axolotl in an aquarium. The protagonist of this story, who lives in Paris, since his first visit to the Jardin des Plantes aquarium, and visiting quite often animals, he becomes obsessed with them. Cortázar's narrator develops a deep connection through constant observation with the axolotl. The perpetual provokes the metamorphosis of the character and the confusion of the reader trying to separate two identities. The whole narration is a process of identification.ion. The first day of his transition begins on a spring day as he went into the darkness of the aquaium and met the axolotl for the