Drawing upon Giorgio Agamben’s remarkable comments on this decisive moment of photo history, the present paper will rather ponder on the latter aspect and apply the visual record as an interpretative model throughout the reading of Alan Warner’s novel Morvern Callar a volume of a story about the process of mourning recovery. Based on the ideas of Agamben’s essay, I shall read the novels according to the rules of an “expanded ekphrasis”. That is, I shall try to rely on the visual suggestions offered by textual gestures and, focusing on their role in narrative formation, I shall argue that the fertile and dizzying zone between textual and visual features within a narrative is the mediatory space of representing the very dynamics of grieving and, in a way, this interaction might be read as a pattern of an ongoing artistic creation which starts out from a traumatic experience of loss on the level of the plot and the narrative arrangement as well.