Speech and memory: strategies and risks of narrative history reconstruction

The article studies the ethical and ontological conditions of the possibility of historical narrative as a form of service to the common memory, especially intense at the break of cognitive and life traditions. The author states that history, always being a newly articulated memory of a past event, is eventual in itself, arising as a relation of narrative reconstruction and historical memory. The issue of the narrative reconstruction strategies is connected with the understanding of its epistemological risks and the hermeneutical horizons of historical memory. The article shows that historical understanding, which forms an ontological dominant of narrative reconstruction, implies a good language capacity of a historian to develop new narrative forms for the renewal of historical memory.