The death of loved ones causes a deep pain associated with the rupture of a bond, and brings the bereaved face to face with a process of mourning. When the loss occurs suddenly or violently, or when it fractures the supposed laws of life, the mourning process has to also tackle the effects of disruption. In response to death, men of all ages have appealed to strategies of various kinds, including symbolic practices such as rituals and writing, with which they attempt to organize the experience of mourning and rebuild their fractured life. “La escritura de duelo” studies a specific way of writing about death, the memories of mourning, and investigates in them two basic issues: the role of writing in processes of mourning, and the meanings about the experience of loss that unfold in some of these autobiographical stories. He argues that these are narratives in which writers simultaneously address the works of memory and mourning when they bring the memory of a loved one to the present and reconfigure its image; when they review the history of the bond and construct meaning in the face of loss. Writing thus helps to reorder their fractured existence, to transform the bond with their deceased beloved and to consolidate their remembrance in the realm of memory.