Narração como coleta de estilhaços em "A guerra não tem rosto de mulher"

This article aims to offer a discussion about the relationships between narration, collapse and becoming, based on the book The Unwomanly Face of War, by Svetlana Aleksiévitch. In dialogue with theoretical perspectives related to the testimony literature, the possibilities of war representation and feminism, I undertake an immanent analysis of the text. Such analysis suggests that this literature, composed of female testimonies about traumatic social situations, not only provides a symbolic space necessary for collective elaborations, but also resignifies substantive conceptions, such as those of literature, war and women, through the access to underground memories, often undermined by official speeches.