Abstract
The following conversation tries to look into the interdisciplinary matrix of historical studies and critiques the inherent relation that history has with literature. It raises several points of discussion: to what extent is history a product of memory? How do we relate biography, narrative and representation? What is the role of 'historical experience' in opposition to postmodern linguistic turn? The conversation also zeros in on the role of religion in reconstructionist historiography and examines the paradigm of ethics in historical writing. In trying to do it we have focused on the intricate relation between historical truth and narrative in relation to objectivity. Finally, the conversation raises the issue of 'historical attitude' and what it means in its greater dimensions. The approach is, thus, an admixture of the philosophical, the linguistic and the literary in our understanding of history as a discipline and theory.