In the Colombian narrative of the last two decades the of the has been included more frequently as a literary motif, which has meant a revaluation of the categories of testimony, narration, body and space. From a comparison of the novels En el brazo del rio and Viaje al interior de una gota de sangre , in this article we will make an interpretation of the body of the victim as an aesthetic trace, where the focalization of the narrator and the spatiality of the body -memory. The novels offer a sort kind of phenomenology of corporality to understand the function of the literature of violence in the socio-historical framework.