Starting from theoretical principles related, essentially, to the problems literary fiction/state fiction and narrative truth, we try to follow the trace of certain details present in the story "The crazy woman and the story of the crime" (1975), by the Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia, and examine the functionality from each of them. The fundamental purpose is to unravel the stories manifest and hidden by the author in said story. It is proposed that the literatura It is an effective means to give voice to the silenced and expose what is not it can be said due to state repression. Finally, an attempt is made to promote a approach to the work of Piglia through the formal and structural analysis of the text.