History of the year and a half of the life of an adolescent in diverse Nazi concentration camps (experience that the author lived in own flesh), Without destiny is not, however, no autobiographical text. With the cold objectivity of the entomologist and from an ironic distance, Kertész shows us in his history the wounding reality of the fields of extermination in their most effectively perverse effects: those that confuse arbitrary justice and humiliation, and the most inhuman everyday with an aberrant form of happiness. A dispassionate witness, Without destiny is, above all, great literature, and one of the best novels of the twentieth century, capable of leaving a deep and imperishable imprint on the reader.