This article examines the works Notas de un ventrilocuo y Boligrafo o suenos chinos by German Marin in order to propose an aesthetic ofwaste based on the extemporaneous residues of a culture evicted by modernity and the Pinochet military regime. It is a literature that evokes a past time in ruins from the handwritten word of a nostalgic person who redefines fragments of history through reflective memory.