What do historians tell us? For a genealogy of the narrative question in history.

In this paper it is argued that the debate on the nature and function of historical narrative developed under a specific key for Anglo-Saxon analytical philosophy, whose line of thought and argument was clearly abandoned a short time due to the emergence of the paradigm linguistic poststructuralist and, in parallel, the theses of the American literary critic Hayden White, in early 1970s the break in these lines of thought led to the abandonment of reflection before all its potential to be explored. In the first part of this text we report a recent debate between two exponents of the philosophy of history. Then a brief literature review about the historical narrative theme from the perspective of analytical philosophy is given.