The book that the reader now has in his hands comes from a discussion about the problems presented by the relationship between the concepts of visuality and writing. A problem that is the object of exploratory exploratory journeys, but which always presents itself with the appearance of the unknown. For the same reason, the texts assembled here approximate this relationship with the resolution and caution of those who look at the edge of a deep excavation and all warn us of their difficult to grasp and impossible to surround with the framework of an absolute term . But it is not a question here of mere taste for the fantastic, but of the need to account for a master movement, a stellar spin that originated in the works of which the essays assembled here speak, and which puts this book together in the orbit of those who find their thematic and enunciative unit in the same work that they realize. The essays contained in this publication were presented in the framework of the colloquium "Visuality and writing", held on October 16, 2009 in the White Room of the National Museum of Fine Arts, organized by the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile . The colloquium convened specialists from different disciplines who approached the cross between word and image, writing and plastic expression, literature and visuality, working works that occupy, transit or put in crisis the borders between both fields.