It is intended to understand Marcelo Marques’s reading of Plato’s Sophist, having as subject the chapter on “Aporía” of his book Platão, pensador da diferença. We also aim to rebuild the bridges suggested by the epigraphs by Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa, which Marque used to illustrate the paradoxical status of images in the Sophist, that means, the image as a kind of being that is, but that is not what is. So, it will be possible to speak of some literary images used to speak of images in the philosophical theory of PlatoIt is intended to understand Marcelo Marques’s reading of Plato’s Sophist, having as subject the chapter on “Aporía” of his book Platão, pensador da diferença. We also aim to rebuild the bridges suggested by the epigraphs by Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa, which Marque used to illustrate the paradoxical status of images in the Sophist, that means, the image as a kind of being that is, but that is not what is. So, it will be possible to speak of some literary images used to speak of images in the philosophical theory of Plato.It is intended to understand Marcelo Marques’s reading of Plato’s Sophist, having as subject the chapter on “Aporía” of his book Platão, pensador da diferença. We also aim to rebuild the bridges suggested by the epigraphs by Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa, which Marque used to illustrate the paradoxical status of images in the Sophist, that means, the image as a kind of being that is, but that is not what is. So, it will be possible to speak of some literary images used to speak of images in the philosophical theory of PlatoIt is intended to understand Marcelo Marques’s reading of Plato’s Sophist, having as subject the chapter on “Aporía” of his book Platão, pensador da diferença. We also aim to rebuild the bridges suggested by the epigraphs by Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa, which Marque used to illustrate the paradoxical status of images in the Sophist, that means, the image as a kind of being that is, but that is not what is. So, it will be possible to speak of some literary images used to speak of images in the philosophical theory of Plato.It is intended to understand Marcelo Marques’s reading of Plato’s Sophist, having as subject the chapter on “Aporía” of his book Platão, pensador da diferença. We also aim to rebuild the bridges suggested by the epigraphs by Faulkner and Guimarães Rosa, which Marque used to illustrate the paradoxical status of images in the Sophist, that means, the image as a kind of being that is, but that is not what is. So, it will be possible to speak of some literary images used to speak of images in the philosophical theory of Plato.O objetivo deste artigo é retomar a leitura de Marcelo Marques do conceito de imagem do Sofista de Platão, tendo como recorte o capítulo sobre a “Aporía” do livro Platão, pensador da diferença. Além de retomar essa leitura, pretende-se reconstruir as pontes sugeridas pelas epígrafes que o comentador retirou de Faulkner e de Guimarães Rosa para ilustrar o estatuto paradoxal das imagens, que são definidas no diálogo platônico como um tipo de ser que é, mas que não é aquilo que é. Com isso, pretende-se avaliar algumas imagens literárias utilizadas para falar de imagens na teoria filosófica de Platão.