ABSTRACT
Although often viewed as differentiated or opposed discourses, fiction and historiography have always been entwined in Western culture, where the debate has revolved around the relationship between narrative and history. Adopting a pragmatic perspective, which maintains that the notion of fiction does not reference a form of organization of representations, but rather the epistemic attitude adopted toward representations, whatever their mode of organization, allows us to understand how fiction and historiography generate belief in contemporary works. In the last twenty years, fictional literature has borrowed themes and narrative techniques from historical narrative, and vice versa, which has challenged the regimes of belief-making.
