This essay proposes an approach to the novelistic reflections from a reading of the novel La ceiba de la memoria, by the Colombian writer Roberto Burgos Cantor. For this purpose, it has reconstructed the metaphors that think inside the work and the active principles that constitute the fictional experience of uncertainty. In addition, we want to present the way in which the literary project of the Colombian author approaches the aesthetic proposal of the writer Édouard Glissant. In this way, the reading offered is an invitation to read La ceiba de la memoria as a novel-essay and beyond the interpretation that literary criticism makes of it as a historical novel.