This book aims to address the topic of exile from two perspectives, initially distinct but ultimately convergent. On the one hand, the literary chronicle of the author's historical family experience - which traverses two traumatic milestones of twentieth-century history, Nazi genocide and the military dictatorship in Chile - coupled with the ethical reflection of her autobiography as a genre testimonial of a fragmentary fact with demonstrative value. On the other hand, treasured theoretical texts are collected here, emphasizing their allegorical sense in relation to prototypical exile. In short, exile is approached from the horizon of a philosophical and phenomenological anthropology, confronted with the symptomatic imprint of what has been lived.