magiadoreal

If every full realized story, however we define that familiar but conceptually elusive entity, is a kind of allegory, points to a moral, or endows events, whether real or imaginary, with a significance that they do not possess as a mere sequence, then it seems possible to conclude that every historical narrative has as its latent or manifest purpose the desire to moralize the events of which it traces. Hayden White, The Content of the Form , p. 14

But it is only the state which first presents subject-matter that is not only adapted to the prose of History, but involves the production of such history in the very progress of its own being. Hegel, Lições Sobre a Filosofia da História  apud Hayden White, The Content of the Form , p. 12

What we wish to call mythic narrative is under no obligation to keep the two orders of events, real and imaginary, distinct from one another. Narrative becomes a problem only when we wish to give to real events the form of story. Hayden White, The Content of the Form , p. 3-4