ABSTRACT
This article analyses the relationship between History and Literature through the 1925 open correspondence between cultural historian Johan Huizinga, and art and literature historian André Jolles, titled Clio and Melpomene. Friends since the late 1890s, Huizinga and Jolles shared throughout their careers a wide range of thoughts on issues surrounding the problem of form, establishing it as a core concept in their investigations into historical writing. In this correspondence, the definition of limits and aproximations between Clio and Melpomene helps shed light on the intellectual trajectory of both authors, as well as on the ongoing debate about the writing of historiographical texts.
Keywords:
Johan Huizinga; André Jolles; History; Literature; form.