The dissertation presents a study, through the reading of works of Pedro Nava, Valêncio Xavier e W.G. Sebald, about the relations between archive and literature, concentrating the focus over contemporary works of memorial tone that invest on the insertion of archival objects and documents as part of the literary work, not only implicitly, in the development of the text, but also explicitly, in the juxtaposition to the writing of documental pictures (with emphasis on photography). By exploring, in that way, an effect of index, by which the literary object is put on evidence as material construction, the works studied allow the research to produce relevant considerations about the relation picture/word, about representation, about realism and about literary hybridism, aiming a wider consideration about the space of literature in the contemporary world, marked by the fall of genres and of models of tradition.