In this article, we propose that the Works El arte de la palabra by Enrique Lihn and Historia de una absolución familiar by Germán Marín appear as expressions of silence, following Maurice Blanchot's idea "the writing of the disaster", and as a manifestation of "thought from the outside", according to Michel Foucault. All of the above in the context of political events that took place in Chile since 1973. The narrative projects of both Chilean writers describe the oficial culture influenced by a language related to power and simultaneosusly they reveal that the poetic word of the disaster through a language outside of representation that materializes a vision of the censored reality.