This article presents evidence of both the ways in which memory is constructed and the crisis of representation in the novel El paso de los gansos (1975) by Fernando Alegria (1918-2005). This volume gives prominence to Cristian Montealegre, a photographer and victim of the repression, whose photographies are testimony of his experience within the context of the first two months of the dictatorship. On this way, one of the two first Chilean antidictatorship novels exposes the coup d'etat and the crisis of this fact unleashes through the intensification of the relationship between word and image.